[Republished By Request Of and With The Permission of Paul Palango]
FRANK MAGAZINE NOVEMBER 10, 2021
A DESPERATE AND TANGLED WEB, DESIGNED TO DECEIVE
BY PAUL PALANGO
The clumsy cover up of what really happened with Gabriel Wortman, the RCMP and all those 22 innocent murdered Nova Scotians stumbled into its next stage November 5 when Brad Johns, the Minister of Justice and all things legal, rose in the provincial House of Assembly to insult those killed, their survivors and those in the province and Canada who have been following this unfolding calamity. Johns managed to do this using the sneakiest of political tactics, making an announcement on a Friday, the last day of the Fall session of the House. That way it would be on the record and not covered by the mainstream and alternative media.
What did Johns do?
As reported earlier by Frank – and only Frank – Johns came to praise former Assistant Commissioner Lee Bergerman for her wonderful work over the previous two years as the head of the RCMP in Nova Scotia. According to Johns, Bergerman “has provided leadership, and been a positive role model for women in a male-dominated world of law enforcement for the last 35 years.” That phrase likely came right out of the Horsemen’s, er, Horsewomen’s mouth. The House unanimously went along with his outrageous motion to acknowledge and praise Bergerman and thank her for her service.
One would think that the families of the survivors would be up in arms about all this and feel betrayed, since a majority of them, we suspect, voted for Tim Houston and helped make the off-shore tax accountant Premier of Nova Scotia. Houston won their vote by attending rallies, looking handsome and telling everyone what they wanted to hear – that he was going to get to the bottom of what happened. NDP leader Gary Burrill, it should be noted, attended the same rallies and said the same things, without the same electoral success. He just announced yesterday his time in the leader's chair is coming to a close.
The Liberals are on board for an obvious reason — they were the ones in charge at the time. But caught up in the legal entanglements that they are in, worn down by the miserable treatment they have received from both government and the RCMP, all the families seem to want at this time is some kind of resolution to the matter. Instead they will have to wait for the pre-programmed Mass Casualty Commission to conduct its show trial and publish its findings and recommendations about two years or more from now, long enough into the future that everyone will have forgotten or care about what happened.
“It pissed us off to hear Tim Houston's Justice minister brag up Bergerman, especially after being present for those marches,” said one person who spoke under the condition of anonymity. “I guess we thought it was a good gesture but at the same time we also knew that he's a politician looking for votes.”
What Houston, Johns and the rest of the elected buffoons seemed unaware of was that Bergerman’s nickname inside the force was “The Blade,” a nod to her skills over the decades at inner-office politics – and that she was hoisted on her own petard.
The House of Assembly shamelessly turned a collective blind eye to what Bergerman did or didn’t do before, during and after the massacres as Gabriel Wortman murdered 13 people in Portapique Beach, had a nap in Debert or somewhere, and then roamed around Nova Scotia for 13.5 hours unhampered by roadblocks, public alerts or police common sense to kill nine more people. His rampage ended only after he apparently ran into a Mountie dog handler named Craig Hubley at the Irving Big Stop in Enfield. Hubley and another unnamed Mountie dispatched Wortman with 20 or so shots, but more on the heroic Hubley in a moment.
The only lasting and unforgettable image of Bergerman is when she appeared on television in the early evening of April 19, 2020 looking red faced, shocked and all-too-eager to run back into the shadows. Bergerman (birthname Leona Marie Bergerman) did everything she could to shrink from public view. Who could forget her performance on that and subsequent days? For seconds at a time she appeared on camera to -- and I'm paraphrasing here -- praise the brave and fearless performances of her selfless troops, descriptives that defy the reality of what actually had happened.
Bergerman repeatedly lamented the death of Constable Heidi Stevenson at the hands of Wortman at the Cloverleaf traffic circle in Shubenacadie, never finding the gumption to explain how Stevenson, a Musical Ride member, school liaison officer and traffic cop, ended up that Sunday morning alone and face-to-face with the murderous Wortman after he had already killed 19 people.
Who could forget Bergerman’s sly but clumsy attempt to insert her own husband, ex-Mountie Mike Butcher, and Chief Superintendent John Robin, the husband of her Halifax colleague, Chief Superintendent Janis Gray, into the middle of the investigation? Butcher and Robin were designated to vet material being sought from the RCMP by the Commission. Caught by Frank Magazine, Butcher’s and Robin’s assignments were quietly cancelled by the RCMP.
As the hearings for the Mass Casualty Commission approached, the RCMP announced that Bergerman was retiring, an event scheduled to take place just before the hearings were to begin in late October. The hearings were subsequently put off until February because commission investigators supposedly found “new evidence.” One can reasonably surmise that they all started reading back issues of Frank or listening to the Nighttime Podcast with Jordan Bonaparte.
On September 28, Bergerman, going by the name Leona Marie Butcher and her husband, Denniss (sic) Michael Butcher, sold their condo overlooking the Halifax Common -- on the fourth floor at 5839 Cunard Street -- for $690,000, $100K over asking. They made a $300,000 profit in five years. Even better, their moving expenses were likely paid by the taxpayers. Good for them. We don’t know where they were headed or what they might be doing.
Will Bergerman be attending the Mass Casualty Commission hearings? I wouldn’t bet on it. The plan is for her to put everything she wants to say on paper in “a foundational document” so that she will not have to undergo the stress and strain of being asked questions in public. Poor woman, we all feel for her.
One question I would ask her is based on something Bergerman told an acquaintance before she packed up her belongings. She didn’t realize that person was someone close to our team, reporting to us about Bergerman’s movements. When asked one day about the Portapique situation, Bergerman dropped a bombshell. If we had a recording of it, it would be the top story in Canada right now. Our friend says Bergerman blurted out that the RCMP suspects that someone in Wortman’s circle may have been an accomplice at one point that weekend. Now Bergerman is in the wind and it appears that the government intends to keep it that way.
Please, Lee, if only for the sake of integrity and perhaps your duty to the citizens of Canada who have paid for your services, come back and tell us everything you know. It would be much appreciated.
Bergerman’s departure is part of a disturbing trend over the past 18 months during which there has been a thinning of the ranks in policing and government as many of those involved in the matter have, for one reason or another, slipped out of Dodge. The first to go were some of the 70 or more Mounties who took almost the entire summer of 2020 off due to the PTSD they suffered from not catching or stopping killer Gabriel Wortman that weekend. Some of those Mounties never returned to work. Others took early retirement.
There are still holes in the 911 system caused by a dearth of operators who have departed because of trauma they suffered while taking calls. In Toronto, police there tell me that at least two Mounties who played prominent roles that weekend had applied for positions there – likely in 23 Division – just east of Pearson International Airport. How many more demoralized rats are fleeing the sinking ship? We just don’t know the true numbers. It’s not something the RCMP likes to advertise considering that it continues to promote itself as the country’s elite police force, a title it surrendered long ago.
Hiding the identities and whereabouts of all those involved before, during and after Portapique has been a goal of the RCMP and governments from the outset. They don’t want the public to know who did what. It’s all part of a pattern of covering up the basic and important facts that are crucial for the public to understand what happened – which is the public’s right.
On the political side, then Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil unexpectedly announced on August 6, 2020 – a mere 109 days after the massacres – that he had accomplished his agenda and was moving on. In his speech that day, McNeil cited myriad positives about his period in leadership. He didn’t say a word about the murders and the fawning, somnolent media didn’t even notice that he hadn’t.
Next to go was Justice Minister and Attorney General Mark Furey. The former Mountie Staff-Sergeant was doing everything he could to protect the Horsemen from public scrutiny, but once the cone of silence cracked and inconvenient facts came tumbling out he, too, decided to call it quits. He chose not to run in the next election.
In New Brunswick, Furey’s counterpart, former RCMP and Fredericton cop Carl Urquhart took the same fork in the road. Urquhart didn’t run for office again. This is notable because the RCMP in New Brunswick played a significant but largely unknown role in the Portapique saga. If you are one of those who actually believe that the New Brunswick Mounties merely attempted to ride to the rescue of their beleaguered Nova Scotia counterparts, I have a couple of bridges in Halifax Harbour that I could sell you for a song.
Also in New Brunswick, Bergerman’s counterpart, Assistant Commissioner Larry Tremblay was quietly axed by the provincial government in July. The stated reason was that the government had “lost confidence” in Tremblay’s leadership. Police sources have long pointed to Tremblay as being the eminence grise in RCMP anti-biker operations in the Maritimes. He controlled everything the Mounties and others were doing or trying to do. Meanwhile, as I told you the other week, he was a bit of a shopaholic at GC Surplus, hoovering up deals on used and surplus government supplies at the same time Wortman was doing the same thing (Frank 857). Sources close to the matter say Tremblay's departure is directly connected to the massacres.
“The word is that this is all about what happened in Portapique,” an ex-police officer said. “The heat is rising to the top and everyone is ducking.”
All of which brings us back to Premier Houston. One would think that based upon what he said at the public marches that he would live up to his word and be eager to right the ship of state and seek justice for the 22 people who were murdered and their grieving families. That now appears to have been, oh no, mere politics.
When the time came Houston named the feckless, nonlawyer, ardent Masonic Temple devotee Brad Johns as both Attorney General and Justice Minister. In that capacity he was placed in charge of both the police and the bureaucracy that supposedly polices the police.
It feels like a plot twist in a Dan Brown potboiler, doesn't it? (A dupe is enlisted to protect powerful members of a secretive society from scrutiny following a mass murder. The Bluenose Code: Available now in paperback!-ed.)
Here were Nova Scotia politicians saying kind words about the leader of the police force that clearly could be held legally culpable for the deaths of nine or more innocent Nova Scotians, depending upon what is revealed in future evidence.
Meanwhile, the provincial government next door in New Brunswick removed its RCMP leader in a bold, unprecedented and curious move.
Reading between the lines, were the Nova Scotia pols just trying to console poor Lee Bergerman for being a tragic victim of inter-office abuse by her New Brunswick counterparts?
We do also have to keep in mind we are talking about Brad Johns here, a fellow who likely cannot believe he has risen to this station in life, probably all too happy to do a bit of forelock-tugging for his police masters.
As we document the steps in this ongoing coverup, it should be noted that since April 19, 2020, the names of a few RCMP members were revealed in court documents. The RCMP and governments have not even publicly confirmed the names of any of them. Even Constable Craig Hubley, the heroic dog handler who allegedly identified and shot Wortman, was only identified after his name was “accidentally” revealed in court documents.
The Halifax Chronicle Herald’s Chris Lambie wrote a hagiographic piece on Hubley based upon information from “a confidential source.”
It all smelled to me. Something wasn’t right. Eventually, I got a tip of my own about Hubley, and I immediately understood why he was the kind of Mountie who could be trusted to keep his lips zipped.
Hubley’s father, Corporal Carl Hubley, had been a respected, long-time member of the force.
Craig Hubley’s long-time and beloved step mother was Deborah K. Smith.
Who’s she? Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia.
It all feels like a desperate and tangled web, designed to deceive.
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