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  • My letter to Justin Trudeau

    Hello Mr. Trudeau,

    I recently watched your video with the cartoonist outlining your platform focused on the middle class and their struggles primarily with Debt. While, you seem to be saying a lot of things that resonate with me there is one issue that you have not recognized and I am curious as to what your stance is on this issue.

    The issue that I am talking about is that of the Federal Child Support Guidelines. If you want to address Debt and want to resolve personal debt in this country, I don’t think you can do that with out addressing the Federal Guidelines and the gross mis-justice within them. You want to make real and effective change for the families of Canada then this is a platform that will win you tremendous support. In Canada we have a very high divorce rate and while it may appear that divorce rates may be on the decrease, I would suggest that that is because fewer people are getting married and are choosing to cohabitate instead. That doesn’t mean fewer people are having babies or fewer children are raised in split homes regardless of marital status. In both scenarios the Federal Child Support Guidelines apply.

    When you look behind the curtain of these laws, you will find our great Canadian Families riddled with DEBT. Debt not only because of the ridiculously long and drawn out family proceedings and lawyers costs but because of the guidelines themselves.
    • Did you know it can sometimes take years for families to resolve issues through family court? The process is set up that way. While, employee disputes are handled in mere months, family law draws things out as long as possible requiring a case conference, settlement conference, trial and a potential for yearly motions for any adjustments in child support?
    • Did you know that many middle class families have no access to legal representation because they “make too much” to qualify for legal aid but in reality don’t make any where near enough for Lawyers’ fees.
    • Did you know that Federal Guidelines base their figures on “Gross” amount of income which fails to reflect an actual income after taxes? and that that money is given to the recipient tax free?
    • Did you know that the system is set up for double dipping or even triple dipping? A mother (Majority of cases have the mother as the recipient) can demand child support, as well as spousal support, and then on top of that Section 7 expenses. Each being calculated by the original gross income which therefore gets compounded into such a foolish amount that there is simply not enough to live off of? This in itself is a breech of the Canadian Constitution: 7. Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of the person and the right not to be deprived thereof except in accordance with the principles of fundamental justice. If you steal from a man more than he can reasonable survive on you steal his rights to life, liberty and security.
    • Did you know that our military men who receive a pension for disability have that income “grossed” up only in a family court and not in any other situation. The CRA, Veteran’s affairs, or any other governmental agency does not recognize this or even know how to calculate it as it is unheard of. Only a computer program in the hands of Lawyers and Judges can calculate this made up calculation
    • Did you know that second families are not awarded any recognition, security, or legal rights as the children of the first families? Only in family court can a judge demand a payment towards post secondary education and that children from a second marriage, or still married family are not afforded the same rights?
    • Did you know that The federal Guidelines only being guidelines award judges so much power that they can over rule the table amounts and create any amounts they see fit?
    • Did you know that a payer can be forced to pay for extracurricular activities regardless of his ability to pay? In families not split, parents can veto an activity if it falls into a category of luxury and out of their ability to afford it but in family court, children’s downhill skiing can take precedence over the payers ability to pay for basis bills.


    I know more than I ever cared to know about family law and as a Canadian citizen I am disgusted with the a system that has nothing to do with Justice. I expected better from Canada.

    What can you do about it?
    • Federal Guidelines should be based on a net not gross amount. Judges should be restricted to line 236 of the payers tax return. Absolute! No “in the digression” of the judge. That is too much power for one person to wield.
    • Spousal support should be determined after the child support has been deducted (Line 236 - Child Support = New amount from which to calculate spousal). Unless in a circumstance where their is no child support and then amount may start from line 236.
    • Section 7 expenses percentages should be calculated by (line 236 - Child Support - Spousal Support = new amount from which to determine %) as well for the receiver ( line 236 + Child Support + Spousal Support = Their new amount from which to calculate percentage.)
    • Court process of the Family Rules should be scrapped and family matters should be handled as expediently as possible reflective more of a mediation process like employee or union disputes.
    • Expediting proceedings are in the best interest of the children which is the primary mandate of the family law process, minimizes continued acrimony, and reduces court costs.
    • All split parents should automatically be awarded joint custody and forced to do co-parenting classes should they show signs of high conflict instead of the current approach that high conflict is reason enough to award sole custody. Many mother’s know this and then create conflict to ensure their award of sole custody, awarding them absolute power and absolute increased wealth through above mentioned triple dipping.
    • Fatherless children are far more likely to tax the country by early pregnancy, addictive and anti-social behaviours, and need of more mental health programs, or even jail time. Yet, the system almost forces men into the background and fails to understand Malicious Mother Syndrome or Child Alienation Syndrome. Therefore, judges overseeing mediation in family law matters need to be educated and made aware of the reality of the dynamics of many high conflict cases.
    • The cultural indoctrination of “Dead Beat Dads” needs to be equaled out with social awareness of “Malicious Mothers”. A family court room is a perfect playground for someone to “legally” harass, slander, make false allegations, and financial destroy the opposing party should they be inspired by vindictiveness. There are zero fail safes to prevent this. I fully believe men should provide for their children and that at one time protections needed to be put in place to product mothers but the pendulum has swung far too far to the left. And where are the protections for fathers?


    Mr Trudeau, If you want to take seriously the issues to the middle class and debt, this issue should be brought on to your platform. Debt is not good for families and it is not good for the economy. Therefore, the Federal Guidelines are not good for the economy. If you were to assure me that you take these concerns seriously and promise real change to this debt producing system, not only would I vote for you I would advocate for you.

  • #2
    Karmaseeker, it would be helpful if you cited your source.

    Mr. Trudeau was raised in a very wealthy family (Prime Minister's (a lawyer) son no less) and attended Ivy-league schools. Do you seriously think he can relate to this or gives a rat's ass? His own mother received MEGABUCKS at the time of his parents divorce in exchange for giving her ex sole custody.


    The letter is full of inaccuracies and simply attacks women.

    "Malicious Mothers syndrome"?

    Bilk, bunk and tripe - that's how I sum it up.
    Last edited by arabian; 02-21-2014, 12:58 AM.

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    • #3
      What would you like me to cite? The family Guidelines? Or the countless statistics of children's issues that come from acrimonious split family homes? Or the psychological truth about Parent Alienation? "Malicious Mother syndrome" is as real as "Dead beat dad" which people fling about as a cultural norm.

      You may not choose to agree with me and that is your prerogative but until you have walked a mile in my shoes you have little knowledge of the devastation a vindictive woman can do in a court if she so chooses. And I would hazard a guess that many payors (men or women) would agree the guidelines are unjust.

      And as for Mr. Trudeau, he is a political leader platforming on the issue of debt and the middle class so to argue that his personal upbringing makes him unqualified for the job is just ignorant. Do I trust he is going to do something? No. But hell if I'm not going to use a politicians posturing for votes as an opportunity to address my concerns.

      And btw, I am a woman! But by your reasoning that would make me unqualified to understand the plight of a father.
      Last edited by karmaseeker; 02-21-2014, 01:16 AM.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by karmaseeker View Post
        What would you like me to cite? The family Guidelines? Or the countless statistics of children's issues that come from acrimonious split family homes? Or the psychological truth about Parent Alienation? "Malicious Mother syndrome" is as real as "Dead beat dad" which people fling about as a cultural norm.

        You may not choose to agree with me and that is your purgative but until you have walked a mile in my shoes you have little knowledge of the devestation a vindictive woman can do in a court if she so chooses. And I would hazard a guess that many payors (men or women) would agree the guidelines are unjust.

        And btw, I am a women!

        If you truly believe the guidelines are unjust for payors, why genderize the issue with garbage about Malicious Mothers?

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        • #5
          The nonsense about men vs women (or fathers vs mothers) discredits the rest of your letter, which has some valid points about tax implications. It's also inaccurate. The law is gender-blind.

          (For what it's worth, I'm *female* with 50/50 custody, and also a payor to an ex who earns over $100K a year and whose household income is nearly double mine and who walked away from the marriage with much more wealth than I did. I've got a ten-year-old Subaru, he drives a brand new BMW/motorbike/RV. I don't love this situation, but it's the outcome of laws which are generally fair so I don't bitch about it).

          Also, it's "in the discretion" of judges, not "in the digression".

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          • #6
            Why does society genderize the issue with garbage about dead beat dads?

            If a man is a "dead beat" regardless of truth or circumstance society goes tsk tsk. If a women abuses that courts to seek revenge through financially ruining her ex... society goes ... that's garbage?

            Can't have it both ways!!

            If you can not open you mind to the possibility that not all women are wonderful and that not all men are not, you would focus on the actually issues regarding the Federal Guidelines and how they devastate families instead of focusing on my wording. But, I imagine the real reason you don't like what I am saying is because you want $ and I am purposing ways to reduce and actually equalize households.

            Statistically the majority of payors are men so the issue is already genderized. Otherwise there would be just as many men awarded with sole custody, or even given equal custody but there simply are not. Therefore, statistics prove a gender bias and gender does indeed play a large role in family court and to deny it is to simply deny numbers.

            I as a women would never dream of dragging my ex through court to ruin his life or try to screw him financially and because of that we have a well adjusted child. But most women that I have seen are not me and that certainly holds true for what I have witnessed first hand.

            5 years my partner has been dragged through family court. For what? Money and absolute power. If that is not malicious I don't know what is.

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            • #7
              Yeah let the kid play with his cartoons.

              So no "cut and paste" Karmamaster? The above article is your own thought in it's entirety?


              I don't believe the gender-bashing was necessary. It did have my attention for a a while - nanosecond.
              Last edited by arabian; 02-21-2014, 01:46 AM.

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              • #8
                Stripes: Good for you for taking 50/50, many women don't and fight tooth and nail for everything, so you are not really experiencing what individuals who have been robbed of custody and granted visitation in their children's lives who are forced to pay through the nose. You may feel hard done by from the system and if you do go speak your voice, be heard! It's a free country wherein we each have the freedom of expression, the freedom to fight for injustices and the freedom to go to our political representatives asking for solutions to the turmoil we endure.

                And again statistically the numbers prove a gender bias.


                ps. And the you spelt something wrong argument? Really???
                Blame fast typing or auto-correct. Hardly discounts my opinion.
                Last edited by karmaseeker; 02-21-2014, 02:00 AM.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by arabian View Post
                  Yeah let the kid play with his cartoons.

                  So no "cut and paste" Karmamaster? The above article is your own thought in it's entirety?


                  I don't believe the gender-bashing was necessary. It did have my attention for a a while - nanosecond.
                  And the crack about the kid and the cartoons ... are you trying to imply I am a bad mother as well? I write a letter to Trudeau and you start personally attacking me? WTF? May I suggest, you not take my letter so personally or go deal with what ever has triggered a nerve because I don't know you nor was I commenting on you personally yet your responses are way over the top.
                  Last edited by karmaseeker; 02-21-2014, 02:06 AM.

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                  • #10
                    Justin Trudeau cartoons:

                    Justin Trudeau's Economic Priorities Explained With Help Of Cartoons (VIDEO)

                    http://www.facebook.com/pages/Occupy...42317435849654
                    Last edited by arabian; 02-21-2014, 09:16 AM.

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by karmaseeker View Post
                      What would you like me to cite? The family Guidelines? Or the countless statistics of children's issues that come from acrimonious split family homes? Or the psychological truth about Parent Alienation? "Malicious Mother syndrome" is as real as "Dead beat dad" which people fling about as a cultural norm.

                      You may not choose to agree with me and that is your prerogative but until you have walked a mile in my shoes you have little knowledge of the devastation a vindictive woman can do in a court if she so chooses. And I would hazard a guess that many payors (men or women) would agree the guidelines are unjust.

                      And as for Mr. Trudeau, he is a political leader platforming on the issue of debt and the middle class so to argue that his personal upbringing makes him unqualified for the job is just ignorant. Do I trust he is going to do something? No. But hell if I'm not going to use a politicians posturing for votes as an opportunity to address my concerns.

                      And btw, I am a woman! But by your reasoning that would make me unqualified to understand the plight of a father.
                      It sounds like you were married to a loser, so of course you didn't fight, there was nothing to fight for.
                      Now you are with a partner who is being dragged through the courts because he is probably like the rest of the herd who wants to give nothing to his x, well too bad for number 2 wife or partner, you do not have the same rights as numero UNO. I have heard it time and time again, number 2 resenting the money number one gets..... That's life, he made his choice to death do us part, it never states do death do us part while married.

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                      • #12
                        Karmaseeker: Your letter was well written and I commend you for articulating your opinion as you did. I also commend you for doing so with hopes to assist so many that are affected by these laws. We need more people like you.

                        To everyone else: Opinions are free, as is this forum. We would do ourselves and each other a service if we were to critically analyse letters/posts as these as opposed to picking it apart for entertainment or to find flaw in the person behind it.

                        We also need to distinguish how gender plays a part in things, which also include families, family law, public policy, finance, etc. A gender bias is different than gendered statistics. And while the law is "gender bias free" the practicing of law is clearly not. This is not subjective, rather this is absolute. Perhaps Karmaseeker could have teased this out and articulated it more clearly in her letter to Trudeau but I did get the message that she was trying to convey regardless.

                        From a feminist perspective I believe that the family law system is flawed. More specifically it pits the female mother against the male father from the outset, as it is predominantly the mother's who have taken the professional career hit by virtue of having the children. If mom stays at home for any length of time to care for children after birth, it widens the gap professionally and further contributes to the war of custody, access and support.

                        Did you also know that many employers subconsciously or consciously view a working woman of child bearing years "as pregnant" given they COULD get pregnant? This view in turn negatively impacts their career as often they are discounted professionally, which helps to explain the glass ceiling/staircase that so many women face?

                        I don't pretend to know the right answers but there are issues that are deeply engrained by gender within the court system, family law and public policy. As an academic I have studied these and done considerable academic (peer reviewed) articles. I am also the author of peer reviewed articles that lend to Karmaseeker's original post.

                        Kudos to you Karmaseeker! I think your letter was well done!

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                        • #13
                          momforever1956 - save your breath. ODF is listed as a "contact" for this same letter under the facebook link:

                          https://www.facebook.com/pages/Occup...42317435849654

                          I have brought this to the attention of the owner of this forum (in the event he didn't already know about it).

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                          • #14
                            What is the issue with the facebook link? And who is ODF?

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                            • #15
                              Wow you women are nasty. And your personal attacks on me are only proving that maliciousness is a characteristic of bitter ex wives.

                              1. My ex is not a loser. He is a fantastic man and we jointly raise a fantastic child. I'm not a bitter ex.

                              2. My partners wife cheated on him for a year and a half who ultimately ran off with her lover that then dumped her ass.

                              3. My partner has fought tooth and nail to keep access to his children because she uses them like pawns.

                              4. My partner gave her the house, a lump sum spousal settlement, pays cs and never missed a payment, pays majority of day care, extra health expenses, has paid for a skiing allowance even when he lost his job.

                              So spare me all your presumptions. As you clearly don't have a clue what you are talking about.

                              If someone wants to logically debate the issues I addressed in a manor that is dignified, logical, and focused feel free to chime in.

                              Any more personal attacks will not be responded to.

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