1. In the fall of 2007, the Federal Minister of Fisheries, Loyola Hearn, and the Nova Scotia Minister of Environment and Labour, Mark Parent, each made decisions to reject an application for a quarry in Nova Scotia, that was made years earlier by an American company, Bilcon of Delaware, through a wholly-owned Canadian subsidiary, Bilcon of Nova Scotia (“Bilcon”).

2. Unknown to the Investors, the Canadian authorities had long before determined to reject Bilcon’s application for their own political purposes. In the meantime, the governments of Canada and of Nova Scotia led the Investors through an artifice of process and procedure, concocted to camouflage and delay a predetermined outcome. The long and tortuous process the Investors were compelled to endure, which was designed to masquerade as legitimate, was actually based on dishonesty, deception, and bad faith.

3. The ruse involved five steps:

a) The first was denial of an application for a permit to operate a quarry;

b) The second was the establishment of an environmental review process, which culminated in the governments’ appointment of a Joint Review Panel;

c) The third was a public hearing conducted by the Joint Review Panel;

d) The fourth was the recommendations of the Joint Review Panel; and

e) The fifth was the actions of government ministers to complete the denial of the permit to the American Investors by rubber stamping the report of the Joint Review Panel.