From: Louise
Date: Wednesday, March 14,
2001 10:31 AM
To: donna laframboise
Subject: ecmas election
Donna,
this is a short email to marnie ko that nicely lays out the family rights
community in
what I think of this whole situation.
Louise
----- Original Message -----
From: "Louise" <malenfant@powersurfr.com>
To: "Marnie Ko" <marnieko@telusplanet.net>
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 5:57 PM
Subject: Re: national post story
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> I think I'm confused about the two groups. One
is Merge, which Ferrel is
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> president of? One is Ecmas, which is run by another fellow and now [Tim]
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MERGE is mentioned by name. Reporter
Marnie Ko immediately realized the importance of disentangling
what MERGE does from what ECMAS does, yet Ms. Laframboise claims that she never did so.] [Back]
> As noted in the Lana email I forwarded to you, Ferrel attends every monthly
> ecmas meeting, and has something to say about nearly ever topic raised
> there, but he does not buy a membership and he therefore does not vote. He
> also attends the weekly ecmas support group meeting, where many newcomers
> first reach out to the family rights movement. Again, he attends like
> religion, insists that [Tim] Adams be in attendance for "legal advice", and
> even shot down the idea of splitting the support group into two meetings due
> to overcrowding because "[tim] can't be at two meetings". So because of his
> diligent attendance and his promotion of [Tim] Adams on the unsuspecting
> people who seek out the support group for custody and access problems, he
> has a tremendous influence on
the support group, again,
without holding a
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membership. I am sure he thinks he is
being crafty in that there is no
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"paper trail" to his influence, but I find that dishonest and
unethical. [ For anyone interested, the
records disprove these claims about
my not being a signed-up member and not voting. In fact, the
reporter heard each of these fabrications contradicted by someone with firsthand knowledge.] [Back]
> Now that [Tim] Adams has been elected vice-president, I wonder if he will now
> stop charging people $100.00 for his advice, or whether he will just view
> his job as a new business opportunity. That's a question someone should ask
> him.
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> So Ecmas is austensibly independant, while the Movement for the Emergence of
> Real Gender Equality (MERGE) is Ferrel's own
group. He also is the chairman
> of
Gender Issues Education Foundation, which does have a charitable tax
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number and has received funding. GIEF is
actually the organization that
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hired me; I was told via email that I would GIEF had a board of directors,
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but the fact is, it is the throne of King Ferrel, whose board members are
> very mysterious. Though I was employed by GIEF I never met them.
[In this connection recall also Ms.
Malenfant's fabrications that I'd never actually joined ECMAS and didn't take
part in voting. For one more quickly provable instance of sloppiness with facts
by this "reliable source" of the reporter's, skip over the next
paragraph to the one following it.] -------->###
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> Then of course, there is Louise Malenfant of Parents Helping Parents, who
> will not be associated with any of these three groups after only six months
> in the province, especially now that [Tim] Adams has been elected vice
> president. That just turns my stomach. The fact is, he is also a pig,
> making comments to boyfriends about their girlfriends and what he would like
> to do to them sexually when the ladies leave for the washroom or go out of
> hearing. [For the record: I
never heard him say anything remotely like this--and, having
met Mr. Adams only once or twice
(and in my presence), neither did Ms. Malenfant.]
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> So that is the entire family
rights community of
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distinction between
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carry the same name, they are worlds apart.
Ecmas Calgary is probably the
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most highly respected family rights organization in the country, especially
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outside of
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> Go
to their web site (through
[Though constantly praising
ECMAS-Calgary for its accomplishments and disparaging ECMAS-Edmonton, Ms.
Malenfant didn't even know the difference between ECMAS-Calgary and the
> Louise
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