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Table of Contents 3 AREAS OF PRACTICE WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT PRESS & RECOGNITION AGRICULTURE LAW BUSINESS & FINANCE BUSINESS / CORPORATE / COMMERCIAL LAW CIVIL LITIGATION CONSTRUCTION LAW CREDITORS’ RIGHTS CRIMINAL ALLEGATIONS DEFENCE CROP INSURANCE DISPUTE RESOLUTION DRUG CHARGES DEFENDED FAMILY LAW DEMOCRATS/ REPUBLICANS CONTACT US 4 5 7 8 11 13 15 17 19 20 21 22 23 45 47 www.merchantlaw.com

AREAS OF PRACTICE Agriculture Law Business & Finance Business / Corporate / Commercial Law Civil Litigation Construction Law Creditors’ Rights, Bankruptcy and Financial Reorganization Criminal Allegations Defence Crop Insurance Dispute Resolution Drug Charges Defended Equipment & Asset Seizures Family Law General Corporate House and Property Transfers and Mortgages Immigrate to Canada from… Insurance Litigation Employment/Labour Law Regulatory and Administrative Laws Marine and Admiralty Litigation Motor Vehicle Accidents Negligence and Product Liability Personal Injury Professional Discipline Hearings and Appeals www.merchantlaw.com 3

AREAS OF PRACTICE Professional Liability Real Estate Slip and Fall Trusts & Estates White-Collar Crime Wills & Estate Planning Wrongful Dismissal/Severance Wrongful Death Zoning and Land Use www.merchantlaw.com 4

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT AS ONE OF OUR CLIENTS Real Results Experience We're ready. No matter what the opposition throws at us, no matter what the case looks like, we've probably seen something like it. This means we're in a great position to deliver the kind of expert advice that helps you resolve tough situations. While every legal matter is complex and a little unpredictable, Merchant Law has a track record of getting excellent results for our clients. Whether it's winning a major pay-out in a class action suit or managing a matter that's a little closer to home, Merchant Law is there.

Client Centered Free Consultation You shouldn't have to pay just to explain your case to us. You don't pay a dime until we agree to take it, and we're happy to listen. During your consultation we'll be working to discover what's most important to you, what the biggest areas of concern on, and both how and whether we can help you. Lawyers who return your calls. Lawyers who sit down with you to answer all your questions. Lawyers who work hard to address every facet of your case. You, our client, are the most important thing on our schedules today, and we treat you accordingly.

PRESS & RECOGNITION

AGRICULTURE LAW We represent clients with respect to agricultural finance, labor, agricultural marketing, agricultural insurance, crop insurance particularly, farming rights, land tenure and tenancy, as well as agricultural processing. Our lawyers handle implementation Equipment seizures and creditor regarding issues that may include disputes frequently arise. credit, intellectual property, and trade and commerce related to Disputes over the forward sale of agricultural products. grain often require legal advice. Merchant Law Group lawyers may be able to solve problems and may be able to minimize how seriously the problem will impact your farm operation. Spending money on lawyers when things are bad seems like throwing good money after bad but often the negative impact on your farm operation can be minimized through careful and timely legal advice. 8

BUSINESS & FINANCE The current evolving corporate climate requires the expertise of creative, time-sensitive legal and business strategies. The lawyers at Merchant Law Group LLP have extensive experience counseling on an array of Business & Finance matters, including: 8

BUSINESS & FINANCE Incorporations Buy/sell and Partnership Agreements Corporate amalgamations and reorganizations Franchise Agreements Leases Security or Corporate Finance Commercial and Residential Real Estate Transactions Intellectual property (trademark/trade name registration, patents, licensing) Debt and equity financing Limited Partnerships Community bond corporations Venture capital corporations Public offerings

BUSINESS / CORPORATE / COMMERCIAL LAW The current corporate climate is complex. The lawyers at Merchant Law Group LLP provide counsel advice for legal and business strategies. We are experienced determined lawyers who provide legal and business/finance strategies in a time-sensitive environment. Merchant Law Group LLP offers efficient, cost-effective business law services to small and large Canadian businesses. We are highly involved in the Saskatchewan business community and have contacts at the highest level of Canadian corporations.

BUSINESS / CORPORATE / COMMERCIAL LAW Merchant Law Group LLP has extensive experience counseling on an array of matters, including: Incorporations Buy/sell and Partnership Agreements Corporate amalgamations and reorganizations Franchise Agreements Leases Security or Corporate Finance Commercial and Residential Real Estate Transactions Intellectual property (trademark/trade name registration, patents, licensing) Debt and equity financing Limited Partnerships Community bond corporations Venture capital corporations Public offerings Securities International Real Estate Tax Zoning & Land Use

CIVIL LITIGATION We represent clients in all manners of disputes before the Provincial Courts, the Superior Courts, Courts of Appeal, the Federal Court, and the Supreme Court of Canada. Merchant Law Group LLP represents clients at hearings before Tribunals, Boards, and Commissions throughout Canada and parts of the United States. We provide specific litigation talent, excellence in honed trial litigation skills. Litigation is the focus of our firm, not the addendum.

CIVIL LITIGATION Civil Litigation is expanding in the field of legal representation. Litigation is our business, not a branch of the Corporate/Commercial department or an add-on to Business Law interests. Our difference lies in welcoming the Court process to defend the edifice and build the bulwarks that will lead to success before the Courts or an acceptable financial settlement. We have the technical proficiency, qualities of mind, fortitude, spirit, and the determination necessary to solve problems. We provide creative litigation solutions. We have extensive experience in all facets of litigation at a time when through disuse of their skills, most firms have few and sometimes only one lawyer in the firm with required litigation experience in corporate, commercial, administrative, tax, and personal law matters. We provide our clients with the knowledge and analysis necessary to make personal and business decisions on a conceptualized basis, focusing on solving problems and achieving success. We have extensive experience representing a full spectrum of clients in diverse areas of law.

CONSTRUCTION LAW Merchant Law Group LLP lawyers represent clients involved in the construction industry. Representation including owners, developers, investors, lenders, contractors, subcontractors, architects, and design professionals. Our team recognizes the amalgamated nature of contemporary construction projects. To serve our clients’ needs, we provide services from the inception of the construction project including counseling, reviewing, and negotiating contract documents.

CONSTRUCTION LAW We also provide advice regarding negotiation and drafting of development and joint venture agreements, and negotiations within the business of construction. Our lawyers negotiate and resolve construction dispute claims utilizing the most productive and cost-effective courses such as mediation, arbitration or litigation. We fully comprehend the multi-disciplinary aspects of contemporary construction projects. Merchant Law Group LLP has a wide range of experience within financial matters of the construction industry such as counseling financial institutions on matters relating to loans including drafting and negotiating construction loan documentation and evaluating possible loan defaults with respect to construction projects. Moreover, Merchant Law Group LLP has extensive experience in dealing with labour issues relating to construction projects. Our expertise includes managing labour disputes and negotiations. We value dynamic relationships that are established between parties.

CREDITORS’ RIGHTS, BANKRUPTCY, AND FINANCIAL REORGANIZATION The highly specialized area of Bankruptcy Law requires skilled litigators with a proficient understanding of the Canadian Legislation and Court System in Canada. The Canadian bankruptcy and insolvency governance is divided between the federal and provincial levels of government in accordance with the division of powers set out in Canada’s Constitution. The lawyers at Merchant Law Group LLP extensively comprehend Creditors’ Rights, Bankruptcy and Financial Reorganization. We have extensive experience and a demonstrated record of success in assisting our clients in their efforts to reorganize with respect to the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act. Merchant Law Group LLP provides legal advice such as Negotiation of out-of- court, debt counseling to small and large corporations, partnerships, proprietorship and individuals contemplating bankruptcy. Specifically, lawyers at Merchant Law Group LLP, work closely with clients, providing counseling and advice with respect to debt management, while examining alternatives to a filing for bankruptcy.

CRIMINAL ALLEGATIONS DEFENCE Merchant Law Group LLP has extensive experience in the Criminal Defence field and represent clients on a broad range of offences. Unlike many firms our size, Merchant Law Group LLP have lawyers who practice almost exclusively in the area of Criminal Law. Our firm lawyers have acted as Agents for the Federal Lawyer General conducting prosecutions under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, gaining valuable defence experience. As one of Canada’s best known law firms, Merchant Law Group LLP have a well-established track record and the experienced approach necessary to defend our clients from harsh criminal penalties. We have obtained positive conclusions for clients charged with criminal offences. Our extensive legal expertise and skill enable us to provide solid, effective legal representation. Our lawyers dominate in the field of Defensive Law. We possess valuable defence experience.

CROP INSURANCE Disputes with crop insurance are not uncommon. Crop insurance has an appeal procedure where the assistance of lawyers can be helpful. There are also litigation avenues that have to be considered. Merchant Law Group has experience in this narrow area of farm representation and without obligation, inquiries are invited. 8

DISPUTE RESOLUTION The lawyers in Merchant Law Group LLP’s Alternative Dispute Resolution divisions practice work closely with our clients to assess all disputes from their inception. We offer a full-range of resolution options, including negotiation, litigation, arbitration, mediation and other personalized options. An important part of our case management strategy, enables our lawyers to include options of legal advice to provide clients. Advised Strategies can enable clients to resolve disputes early. Early resolutions are cost effective and fair. Lawyers in our practice are members of provincial Law Societies and have served both as mediators and arbitrators and are successful at representing clients who have several disputes arising out of construction projects, commercial leases and diverse business related contracts. Our seasoned lawyers have arbitrated insurance disputes pursuant to rules of Dispute Resolution protocols.

DRUG CHARGES DEFENDED Merchant Law Group LLP has extensive experience in the Criminal Defence field and represents clients on a broad range of offences. Unlike many firms our size, Merchant Law Group LLP have lawyers who practice almost exclusively in the area of Criminal Law. Our firm lawyers have acted as Agents for the Federal Lawyer General conducting prosecutions under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, gaining valuable defence experience. As one of Canada’s best known law firms, Merchant Law Group LLP has a well-established track record and the experienced approach necessary to defend our clients from harsh criminal penalties. We have obtained positive conclusions for clients charged with drug offences. Our extensive legal expertise, experience and skill enable us to provide the best possible resolution. Our lawyers dominate in the field of defensive law.

FAMILY LAW Merchant Law Group LLP’s experienced family law lawyers have represented thousands of individuals in matters involving: Divorce Spousal Support Child Custody Child Visitation Child Support Adoptions; and Dependent Adult Applications. Our team of family law lawyers also handle child custody cases, child access cases, child support cases, spousal support cases, and cases involving variations of custody, access, child support, and spousal support.

FAMILY LAW Our leading family law lawyers represent clients in Calgary, Edmonton, Regina, Surrey, Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Winnipeg, and throughout Canada. More specifically, and in addition to the foregoing, our legal team has experience handling cases such as: High-Net-Worth Divorce Contested Divorce Uncontested Divorce Abandonment Divorce Adultery Divorce Inhuman Treatment Divorce, and Post-divorce Disputes. Whether you are seeking a family lawyer in Calgary, Edmonton, Regina, or anywhere else in Canada, contact Merchant Law Group LLP for skilled, aggressive, and effective representation. Merchant Law Group LLP and its experienced team of family lawyers have vast experience and are well respected by the courts. Each of our family law lawyers is skilled, knowledgeable and experienced, and offer free consultations.

GENERAL CORPORATE Merchant Law Group LLP provides legal services for business and finance strategies. We are a team of engaged counsel who executes comprehensive business plan strategies in a time-sensitive environment with the highest degree of efficiency and integrity. We have a diverse client base, including the private and public sectors.We are recognized as eminent by our clients, competitors, judges, and its members. Our hallmarks are innovation, teamwork, and our ability to anticipate and effectively respond to change, to act proactively, and to create opportunities. Success. Integrity. Business Relationships. We are determined counsel who engages to meet above and beyond the expectations of our clients and are highly involved in the Saskatchewan business community and have contacts at the highest level of Canadian corporations. Our legal team provides cost-effective corporate legal services to small and large Canadian businesses.

HOUSE AND PROPERTY TRANSFERS AND MORTGAGES Merchant Law Group LLP represents clients regarding the purchase and sale of the property, real estate development transactions, construction loans, leasing agreements and resolution of title issues. We communicate with financial institutions when obtaining mortgage financing, and interact with municipal and provincial authorities involved in the transfer of the real estate. We have highly respected lawyers in the field of Commercial Real Estate who assist clients with commercial Real Estate transactions. We advise clients in this increasingly complex and wide-ranging area of law. Developers, manufacturers, lenders, builders, and owners and tenants of commercial and industrial properties, apartment buildings and condominium projects are among those we represent.

PROFESSIONAL DISCIPLINE HEARINGS AND APPEALS Most associations that govern a profession utilize a disciplinary hearing for reviewing the conduct of its members and determine the consequences. There is often more than one individual who hears the specific complaint. A Hearing Panel will determine the decision with respect to the consequences of the particular complaint.Merchant Law Group LLP lawyers fully comprehend the pressures to be considered when allegations of professional misconduct occur. We have dedicated lawyers. We are seasoned litigators We are dedicated to our clients. We take into account any risks to our client’s credibility when defending our clients with respect to allegations of negligence or wrongdoing.

REGULATORY AND ADMINISTRATIVE LAWS Proceedings with respect to Governmental and regulatory entities necessitates precise actions and thorough comprehension of the law. Lawyers at Merchant Law Group LLP routinely handle a full range of complex, multi-faceted issues, which include Regulatory and Administrative Law. We have been engaged in a variety of public utility issues. The growing and rapidly changing field of gaming law provide the structure for our representation to ensure the interests of our clients are protected and that they are providing services within the strict confines of a highly regulated field.

CURRENT CLASS ACTIONS Accutane Class Action Actos National Class Action Administrative Segregation – Federal Prisons Class Action Administrative Segregation – Provincial Jails Class Action Aeroplan National Class Action/Recours Collectif Aeroplan Agent Orange / Agent Purple Class Action Air Miles National Class Action Alesse 21 And Alesse 28 Birth Control Class Action Alysena Birth Control Class Action Aphria Class Action Allerject Class Action Apple Iphone 6 / 6 Plus (“Touch Disease”) Class Action Atomic Veterans National Class Action Avodart Class Action B.C. Automatic Roadside Prohibition Class Action Baggage Fees Class Action Barrick Pascua-Lama Class Action Bernzomatic Gas Torch Defect Class Action Blackberry Class Action Business Interruption Insurance Class Action Bread Price Fixing Class Action Brazilian Blowout National Class Action

Car Rental Vehicle Fees Celexa Pregnancy Class Action Cellular Class Action Chalk River National Class Action Chemical Veterans’ Class Action Chevy Cruze Coolant Class Action Chrysler Ignition Class Action Crocs Class Action Depuy Hip Implant Class Action Destination Marketing Fee Class Action Dodge Chrysler Tire Sensor Defect Class Action Elections Ontario Class Action Eliquis Class Action Epipen / Epipen Jr. Recall Canada Class Action Essure Permanent Birth Control Class Action Ethicon Physiomesh Class Action Facebook Data Breach Class Action Fentanyl National Class Action Fiat Chrysler Diesel Emissions Class Action Fiat Chrysler Recall Class Actions Fixodent/Poligrip Denture Adhesive Class Action Food Supplements Class Action Forced Adoption Class Action Ford 1.6l Coolant System Failure Class Action Ford Gm Cp4 Diesel Fuel Pump Class Action Ford Spark Plugs Class Action Ford Sudden Acceleration Foster Care Class Action Gear Shifter – Jeep Chrysler Dodge Maserati Class Action

GLGI CRA (Canada Revenue Agency) Litigation GM Ignition Class Action GM Power Steering Class Action GM Saturn Class Action Goldcorp Class Action Hyundai Class Action Indian Residential Schools Class Action Indian Status Class Action Inferior Vena Cava IVC Filter Class Action Input Capital Class Action Invokana Class Action iPhone Slowdown Class Action – Apple iPhone Class Action 2018 Kingsclear Abuse Class Action Leon’s Mfg. Manure Spreaders Class Action Levaquin/Cipro/Avelox Class Action Manulife Financial Class Action Mercedes-Benz HVAC Class Action Meridia National Class Action Metis Residential Schools Class Action Military Sexual Harassment Class Action Missing and Murdered Indigenous Class Action Mutual Fund Timing Class Action Navistar Maxxforce Class Action Nexium / Prevacid / Losec Kidney Class Action – PPIs (Proton Pump Inhibitor Medication) Nissan Continuously Variable Transmissions Class Action (“Nissan CVTs”) Nissan Timing System Class Action

Ottawa Endoscope Class Action Ovarian Cancer Baby Powder Class Action OxyContin Class Action Paxil Pregnancy Class Action Pradaxa Class Action Pramipexole Dihydrochloride (Generic Mirapex) Class Action Premarin/Premplus Class Action Prexige Class Action Prime West Shareholders Class Action Propecia & Proscar Class Action Public Mobile/TELUS Class Action Radiologist Class Action Resolve National Class Action Risperdal / Invega Class Action Saskatchewan Foster Care Class Action Saskatchewan Training School Class Action School Fees Class Action Scratch ‘n’ Win Class Action Sixties Scoop Class Action Storkcraft Baby Cribs National Class Action Stryker Trident Hip Implant Class Action Sundre Oil Spill Class Action Surgical Assistants Class Action Takata Airbag Class Action Thunder Bay Flooding Class Action Ticketmaster Class Action Tobacco Class Action Topomax Class Action Transvaginal Mesh Claims

Ukraine Airlines Flight 752 Class Action Valsartan Class Action Veterinary Class Action Vétérans des Forces canadiennes Volkswagen Timing Chain Class Action Xarelto Class Action / Recours Collectif Xarelto (Bayer) Yaz & Yasmin National Class Action Zimmer Knee Replacement Class Action 911 Fees Class Action

PUBLICATIONS NATIONAL EQUIFAX DATA BREACH CLASS ACTION COMMENCED “The Equifax data breach is the largest and most serious in North American history,” said Tony Merchant upon the launching of a national class action regarding the Equifax data loss. “Equifax, entrusted with a wide array of financial information regarding Canadians, Americans, and others throughout the world, has jeopardized the financial safety of Canadians.” If you wish to join our E-bulletin contact list for this class action, please visit our class action page by clicking this link https://merchantlaw.com/class- actions/equifax A copy of the issued Statement of Claim is attached. Note particularly paragraphs 10, 15, 16, and 32. “Equifax claims to have offered free credit monitoring services for a year, at least to US customers but a part of the terms of service for that offered free year of credit protection involves a waiver of rights to participate in any class action law suits,” said Mr. Merchant.

“Whether such a waiver would prove to be effective (give that TrusteeID is not Equifax) is questionable, but potential class members should think twice before signing up under this “deal”. There are legal arguments that indicate such a ruse by Equifax will not succeed but class members should nonetheless exercise care.” “I stress,” Tony Merchant emphasized, “the importance of the impact is that all of the information about people has been aggregated in one place. Data loss of multiple identifiers of individuals is profoundly more significant than the single loss of a credit card number, the single loss of a social insurance number, the loss of mortgage information, the loss individually of pieces of financial information.” Merchant Law today issued legal proceedings in Saskatchewan and on Monday will be issuing legal proceedings in Quebec, in Ontario, and perhaps in other jurisdictions. All Canadians, businesses, and individuals, who are interested in information and being made aware of the progress of the ongoing class action, should provide their contact information through the website.

YOUR BLOOD ALCOHOL LIMIT Your Blood Alcohol Limit In most provinces, criminal charges result if you are drinking and driving while over .08. In many provinces, there are other sanctions even if you are below .08. Estimating your blood alcohol level is not easy. Your blood alcohol level depends on your weight, the duration of drinking, the amount that you drank, your level of hydration, and is also impacted by whether you drank on an empty or full stomach. Weight Your blood alcohol level depends upon your body weight because for every pound over your ideal weight, you carry an additional mile of capillaries. This creates an additional amount of blood to dilute the alcohol. The average heart circulates all of your blood throughout your body every minute. Hydration Water in your system, just like blood in your system, impacts your blood alcohol level. An ounce of alcohol in a liter of blood means a lower blood alcohol level than an ounce of alcohol in two liters of blood. You also have water in your system.

Stomach Contents Drinking on a full or empty stomach affects your blood alcohol level. You know this from personal experience. You get a more significant hit from a drink when you have not been eating than when you have been eating. This is caused by two affects. First, alcohol primarily enters your blood through the lower intestine. If your stomach is filled with food the alcohol does not quickly get to the lower intestine. If your stomach has no food, the alcohol, a liquid, will go quickly through your stomach and start to be processed by your lower intestine. Second, the stomach processes alcohol. When the stomach processes the alcohol it does not affect your blood alcohol level. Think of the alcohol being burned by the digestive juices in the stomach. Cumulatively, these two effects are, that if the alcohol is delayed in getting to the lower intestine and burned by the digestive juices in your stomach, drinking on a full stomach will result in a lower blood alcohol level than drinking on an empty stomach. Indeed, in some tests the blood alcohol level is double in the test subjects drinking on an empty stomach as opposed to drinking on a full stomach. Your liver will dissipate about one ounce of alcohol per hour but the lining of the stomach has an enzyme by which it will dissipate alcohol and assist the liver. Drinking on a full stomach not only slows the impact of the alcohol but your stomach will process and dissipate alcohol even before it gets into your blood and before your liver has to bat clean up.

Duration Your blood alcohol level depends upon the duration of your drinking because your body processes the alcohol as it is ingested. The alcohol is almost fully absorbed and reaches its peak level in your blood and the impact upon you, about 45 minutes after consumption of drinking on an empty stomach. Drinking a lot of alcohol slowly may make you feel as though you are not very high and make you feel as though you are not over .08 but you may be. Age and Ethnicity do not matter! 16 years old, 66 years old, fat, skinny, Nordic, First Nations, lumberjack, candlestick maker, none of these things matter. Sex Matters! As a woman, I can drink as much as a man. Not true! It takes less alcohol for a woman to become intoxicated because women process alcohol differently than men. Women reach a higher blood alcohol level than men do after drinking the same amount, even if they are the same height and weight. Switching Among Beer, Wine, or Spirits, will affect me more Blood alcohol concentration is what counts – not the type of alcohol you drink. Staying on one type of alcohol or switching among them makes no difference. A drink is a drink. You do not get drunker when you drink hard liquor for example and people who say I stick to beer or wine are becoming just as inebriated.

Get Energy and Sobering Up Alcohol does not give you energy. The opposite is true. Alcohol is a depressant and slows down the ability to think, speak, and move. Perception, coordination, and judgment are affected before people begin to notice physical signs of impairment. “Sober up” with a cold shower and a cup of coffee only works in the movies. They feel clean and awake but time is the only thing that will sober you up. Coffee or Red Bull may keep you awake but caffeine will not make you sober. Estimating Almost all hard liquor sold in Canada is 80 proof, meaning it is 40% alcohol. Beer is not so easily categorized. Most Canadian beers are between 4% and 7% alcohol. For the following example, 6% has been used for beer. Wines, not ice wines or fortified wines which are higher, but ordinary wines are between 11% and 13% alcohol and 12% has been used for this example.

To equally compare a bottle of beer, 12 ounces, a glass of wine, or a drink of spirits: Beer – 12 ounces x 6% = .72 ounces of alcohol Wine – 6 ounces x 12% = .72 ounces of alcohol Spirits – 1.8 ounces x 40% = .72 ounces of alcohol Many bars serve 1 ounce drinks, some 1.25 ounce drinks, and some, but rarely, 1.5 ounce drinks. 1.8 ounces was selected for the example so there would be a parallel to a bottle of beer. Putting this differently, if your friend is drinking mixed drinks and you are matching him or her by drinking a bottle of beer for every fixed drink, probably a 1 ounce drink, you are probably consuming 80% more alcohol than the person drinking mixed drinks or sipping shots. The following estimates are based on a man drinking on an empty stomach with normal hydration. • Suppose you weigh 133 pounds. • Suppose it is a half hour since you started to drink; • If in total this person has consumed 1.5 ounces of spirits, or 5 ounces of wine, or 5/6ths of a bottle of beer and it has been a half hour since consuming the drink, he is at about 0.02633%: one drink – .03 • If in total this person has consumed 3 ounces of spirits, or 10 ounces of wine, or about 20 ounces of beer, all within a half hour, he is at about 0.06016%: two drinks – .06

What to do practically if arrested for drinking If you think you are close to .08, and not much over, vomiting might help. If you were drinking on an empty stomach, the alcohol will all have passed to your lower intestine. If drinking on a full stomach, you might marginally impact your ascending alcohol by clearing your stomach but this is not a very practical solution and it is unlikely to have much impact. Exercising furiously in your prison cell, burning the alcohol might also marginally help. These ideas might move you from .09 to .087 (and you are always rounded down), but really there is nothing you can do in a practical sense if stopped by the police and taken into custody for the purpose of demanding that you blow. What should you legally do Answer no questions. You are not required to answer questions. If they ask if you were driving, refuse to answer. You may think it is obvious that you were driving but do not answer. Ask to speak with a lawyer. Give your name and your driver’s license but no other information. If they ask your address, do not answer. After hours you likely will reach a telephone answering service but impress upon them the importance of finding a lawyer. Tony Merchant answers telephones at 2 o’clock in the morning. So do our other lawyers. Our advice will be not to say anything and to blow.

Blow Do not think you can pretend to blow. Blow as they instruct. It is easier for Merchant Law lawyers to successfully defend being over .08 than a refusal to blow. Merchant Law successfully defends about 50% of the people we represent who are charged with drinking and driving offences. Alcohol and health Your liver processes alcohol. Your liver cleanses – processes – most of the bad we consume. You want a number under 5. Over 7.5 demonstrates danger. Get tested for gamma-glutamyl transferase (GGT) which is rarely authorized for testing in Canada, but you can tell your doctor to put GGT on your liver panel test list.

Consumption levels Availability of alcohol may affect consumption rates although variables are many. Quebeckers drank 144 litres of alcoholic beverages per person of drinking age in the most recent comparable year. This was the highest of any province. Albertans were close behind at 134 litres per adult. In 3rd, Newfoundland Labrador came in at 132 litres. Saskatchewan rates 8th in alcohol consumption. And interestingly the largely urban Ontario, ranks 9th. The people of New Brunswick consumed the least alcohol at 102 litres per person. New Brunswick, a province like Quebec, is Francophone but curiously is 10th, and Quebec is 1st. The Forgoing is Not Legal Advice. The information is believed to be accurate but reliance leading to a charge of being over .08 will neither provide a defence to the charges nor grounds to advance a claim against Merchant Law. For specific advice, and in particular specific advice if charged with a drinking and driving offence, call our offices for free initial advice.

GEAR SHIFTER CLASS ACTION LAUNCHED AGAINST JEEP, CHRYSLER, DODGE, MASERATI New Canada-wide Class Action Launched in Court Today A National class action was launched today regarding the gear shifting danger in Jeep, Chrysler, Dodge, and Maserati vehicles. “These auto companies knew about the defect,” commented Tony Merchant, Q.C. said, “but deceived their customers by telling people who complained that theirs was an isolated incident. The death of Anton Yelchin is horrible but that publicity helped people affected all over Canada to know that what was happening to them was not their fault.”

Merchant Law Group LLP is well known for involvement in mass tort and class action cases in Canada, which include lawsuits involving Winners, Residential Schools, System Access Fees, Hollinger, Maple Leaf Foods, and many other cases on our website. Regardless Of Whether You Were Injured Or Endangered By Your Vehicle, Compensation Is Expected For All Affected Vehicle Owners Because Steps Must Be Taken To Make Your Vehicle Safe!

DEMOCRATS/ REPUBLICANS Twenty-three Democratic hopefuls are now criticizing each other in hopes of creating a circumstance by which Donald Trump may be reelected. It is a mild overstatement to postulate that the world would have been a better and cleaner place if Lyndon Bains Johnson had never been born. Certainly, anyone who can read thinks poorly of him. It may not be an impeachable offense for a President to have a line installed from the kitchen to the Oval Office so that he may squirt fresh Fresca into a glass but… The foregoing truths aside, the Democratic race to reelect President Slim brings to mind a lucid moment when Lyndon Bains commented: The only difference between liberals and cannibals is cannibals don’t eat their friends and family members.There are other truths to be noticed in the circular firing squad to select someone to snatch defeat from the jaws of a Trump defeat. Republicans are more holy than Democrats. That is why there are more registered Democrats. But Republicans vote.Other truths. Republicans only care about deficits when there is a Democrat in the White House. The real truth is that the amount the government takes out of the economy in the last 20 years is a constant. It runs at about 18%.

In the long run, we are all dead. The electoral college has 538 members, 435 in the House of Representatives and 100 in the Senate, so each district gets an electoral college equivalent vote plus District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and American Samoa1. The electoral college is made up of these 535 plus three extras for the territories. In passing, since Wyoming and Vermont, have one each (for their one member in the House), but they also get two extra members of the electoral college because of two senators, a vote in Vermont, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, Rode Island, is more valuable than a vote in California. Half of 538 is 269. For the election Trump’s lock on 260 is solid. All you should do, and I would like you to tell me the polling if you can find it, is determined what will happen in Wisconsin, 10 votes, Michigan, 16 votes, and Pennsylvania, 20 votes. If he again wins one of those three states and winning all three in 2016 took Trump to 306, then November 3 will be a bad day by ethical standards and November 4 a good day for health care and pharmaceutical stocks.

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