Cablegate: Nafta Chapter 11: Sun Belt Water Requests

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102027Z Nov 05

UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 OTTAWA 003372

SIPDIS

SENSITIVE

L/CID AND WHA/CAN

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: EINV ETRD CA NATO
SUBJECT: NAFTA CHAPTER 11: SUN BELT WATER REQUESTS
ASSISTANCE FROM AMBASSADOR

1. (SBU) Post has received the following letter regarding
Sun Belt Water's Nafta Chapter 11 dispute with the government
of Canada. Note: Sun Belt is Claimant C in the 527 Report
to Congress on investment disputes. End note. The original
letter and the accompanying CD, which we have not viewed at
post, are being sent to L/CID with a copy of the letter to
WHA/CAN. We request guidance on the most appropriate
response to Mr. Carten.

2. (U) Begin text of letter:

John Frederick Carten, B.A., L.L.B.
34-3075 Nanaimo Street, Vancouver, B.C.
Tel 604 877 0312

October 29, 2005

The Honorable David Wilkins
United States Ambassador to Canada
490 Sussex Drive
Ottawa, Ontario
K1N 1G8

Dear Ambassador Wilkins:

Re: SUN BELT WATER INC. & Related Matters

I am enclosing for review by you and by the appropriate
authorities in your government a CD which contains on it a
copy of a document entitled SECOND POLICE REPORT which is
dated October 3, 2005. The document is in Adobe 6 format
and, although 120 pages long, the exhibits, which amount to
100 pages in total, are hyper-linked to the text for ease of
reading.

The enclosure should be read in combination with the POLICE
REPORT, dated December 2002, a copy of which was sent to your
predecessor, Mr. Celucci (sic).

Both of these documents, along with other related material,
are available on-line at www.sunbeltwater.com

The two POLICE REPORTS set out proof of a fraud carried out
by the BC government in 1990-91 in relation to bulk water
exports. That fraud was then carried forward with the crimes
of fraud, perjury and obstruction of justice in relation to
litigation in Canada involving your corporate citizen, SUN
BELT WATER INC., in which I acted as legal counsel.

In the background to these events was the attempted
conspiracy by the Premier of British Columbia, a number of
political insiders and W.C.W. Western Canada Water
Enterprises Inc. to fix the outcome of a public tender
process being conducted by the Goleta Water District of
southern California, in March, 1991.

As a Canadian, I request that you bring these issues to the
attention of your President. Mr. George Bush, and your
government, generally.

I also request that you and your government take immediate
steps to inform the Canadian public of the deceit and
duplicity of their political elites, who have fed them the
propaganda that Canada complies with NAFTA while your country
does not.

The events of 1990 and 1991 were an early violation of the
Canada US Free trade Agreement and the treatment of SUN BELT
WATER INC. in our domestic courts was a continuous violation
of the fair and equitable treatment provisions of Article
1103 of the NAFTA.

It was an embarrassment for me to recently witness Ms. Rice
suffer, unfairly, the taunts of the Canadian media, that is
filled with wild accusations that your government ignores its
obligations under NAFTA, which I know, perfectly well, how
both the British Columbia and the Canadian government have
ignored their duties to uphold NAFTA in relation to SUN BELT
WATER INC. and how the Canadian media continues to refuse to
publish that story.

When the events of 9-11 occurred, it was average Canadians
who reached out to Americans who were stranded at our
airports and it is average Canadian who need your
government's help in lifting the clouds of falsity and deceit
that have shrouded their vision with regard to these issues.

I trust that your and your government will do the right thing
by supporting the revelation of the truth in relation to
these matters.

Yours very truly,

JOHN FREDERICK CARTEN, B.A., L.L.B.

End text of letter.

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