HONOURABLE SENATOR ANN C. COOLS
BILL S-9 - Legal Reform Awakens
Twenty-five years ago, the Honourable Senator Anne Cools introduced a groundbreaking bill aimed at amending the Criminal Code—one that sought to bring accountability to a system increasingly misused by those who exploit it.
Her proposed legislation was a bold stand against the weaponization of false accusations and the manipulation of legal proceedings for malicious or self-serving ends. It was designed to hold both lawyers and their clients accountable when they turned courtrooms into battlegrounds—not for justice, but for vengeance.
At its core, this bill was a call to restore honour, integrity, and ethical responsibility within the legal profession. It stood as a safeguard to ensure that our courts would not be hijacked by deceit, but remain sacred spaces where truth and justice could prevail.
The parallels between the FatherFactor.AI Founder's current family law case and Senator Anne Cools' historic work on Bill S-9 are not just striking. They're undeniable...
...In February 2024, I reached a pivotal milestone in my Family Law case as a self-represented father. I filed an application seeking nine court orders, supported by a 300-page affidavit meticulously detailing a pattern of deceit. Within it, I presented compelling evidence that my ex-wife had knowingly lied to police and that she and her attorney, Martha Metzner, engaged in deliberate bad faith conduct. Actions that, by all reasonable standards, meet the threshold of wilfully deceiving the tribunal or relying on false, deceptive, exaggerated, or inflammatory material.
In less than 12 hours after filing, I received an email from attorney Martha Metzner in response to my application, stating: “For the purpose of this application, I am not acting for Ms. M. You are to deal with her directly until further notice.”
It becomes the judiciary’s duty to scrutinize and acknowledge a lawyer’s questionable conduct but only if that lawyer has the courage to remain standing before the court. And let’s just say that my application hasn’t exactly been greeted with judicial enthusiasm.
A good measure of character is how much truth one can tolerate. By that standard, I must be intolerable. Because rather than address the substance of my evidence, the court’s response has been to sidestep it entirely, treating my factual, corroborated claims not as a call for justice but as an inconvenience. The facts I laid bare weren’t just ignored; they were deflected with discomfort, as if the courtroom itself couldn’t bear the weight of its own duty when that duty pointed to one of its own.
Senator Ann Cools brought forward dozens of adjudicated cases where judges determined that allegations were entirely false or groundless. One of those cases was Metzner v. Metzner, B.C. Supreme Court. The divorce of none other than my ex-wife’s attorney, Martha Metzner.
BILL-S9 (abuse of process)
An Act to amend the Criminal Code
WHEREAS the pervasive, intrusive and instantaneous nature of modern media news coverage increases the pressure on counsel in judicial proceedings to participate publicly in news events in the interests of their clients or in other ways extend their activities as counsel to include conduct considered unethical under the rules of their profession;
AND WHEREAS it is in the public interest that conduct of that kind be made criminal and not merely unethical in order to prevent the administration of justice being adversely affected;
SUMMARY
This enactment creates three new offences in the Criminal Code making it an offence for counsel in judicial proceedings to
(a) make public statements outside the tribunal that are known by counsel to be false or that counsel failed to take reasonable measures to ascertain were false;
(b) institute or proceed with proceedings known by counsel to be brought primarily to intimidate or injure another person; or
(c) knowingly to deceive or participate in deceiving the tribunal or to rely on false, deceptive, exaggerated or inflammatory documents.