by E-mail [email protected]

And by facsimile (416) 231-2052

c/o The Witness Protection Program

May 7, 1997

THE MINISTER OF JUSTICE
THE HON. ALLAN ROCK

Dear Mr. Rock,

It is now 3 weeks since you were given a new application with respect to my father and nothing of significance has been accomplished. I specifically asked that you either order a new trial and/or authorize the RCMP to do an independent investigation into my father's case. The latter option requested a Respite be granted pending the outcome of the investigation. To date this has not happened.

Once again your staff - Mr. Yvan Roy this time - is preoccupied with challenging my credibility. I don't need to prove to you that my father is innocent. I merely need to show you that his conviction is not safe. If you ever give the Canadian public a chance to hear all the facts a jury can then determine the rest. For Mr. Roy to begin an assault upon my credibility saying he could not believe Sal would have entrusted me with such information and, to be raked over the coals about this is preposterous. Do you imagine the RCMP would have spent 12 million dollars on an investigation or have put my family into the witness protection program because I am making all this up or there is nothing more than a few weapons charges? Furthermore it just validates my concern that your staff is incapable of being objective and focused on the real crime; to wit: my father having been deliberately set up and framed for a murder he did not commit.

The application before you is not based upon any specific tape recordings. It is based solely upon my credibility of me saying what I heard first hand. For the purposes of the application I am specifically not relying upon any recordings. I don't trust your people to not waste valuable time in arguing over matters of content, context and clarity while my father remains in harms way. I know what I heard and if you accept the RCMP's assessment of my credibility having high confidence then you have enough to act. I have not sought exoneration from you, only a new trial and/or a new independent investigation and that my father be transferred from CSC custody int that of the RCMP vis a vis their Witness Protection Program, if necessary on an electronic monitoring bracelet.

I also remind you of the initial conversations which I have previously told you about. Incidentally, there is a lengthy and audible tape recording between one Richard Martin and Salvatore Ciancio detailing all this as well. This tape was given to George Wool who was my father's counsel at the time. Repeated efforts - which are documented - to instruct George Wool to release this tape to us so that we can get it to you have been unsuccessful. I fully invite you to attend Mr. Wool's office and attempt to secure this tape for yourself.

When I attended your office earlier this week in the company of a news reporter, I was assured by your executive assistant that I would be personally contacted by you yesterday. When, however, Mr. Roy contacted me on your behalf, I was extremely reluctant to speak to him out of these very type of concerns. Obviously, my concerns were well founded.

I do not trust any of the Department of Justice officials I have had contact with since the outset of this case, nor their motives. Your department has, through its inaction let a felon remain at large without scrutiny and go on to commit multiple murders after you did not take the information I had previously given you seriously enough to thoroughly investigate it.

As a side bar, another example of this is my recent dealing with Mitch Taylor, your counsel who is handling the federal court case. He too, recently showed how deceitful and exploitive your staff are. After assuring me that he understood why I could not assist my father just right now with his case and that I could rely upon representations he would make to the judge in chambers so as to keep it out of the public domain, he actually filed a motion against my father's motion seeking an extension. He later told me I should have just filed an affidavit telling the court I was in the program and so forth. This would have made it a matter of public record and was against all the advice of the RCMP about going public. When the extension application was dismissed and left me with no choice but to now appeal it - something I will have too act upon shortly if necessary - on the basis of my circumstances and, when you passed the application off to your bureaucrats, I made my final decision to go public. I felt the actions of yourself and Mr. Taylor made it public for all intents and purposes anyway.

Accurate or not, my perception nonetheless is that once again your staff are doing nothing but damage control. Especially, in an effort to squelch your accountability during the election. Mr. Rock, I don't know you as a person and I am still open to the possibility that you are a fair and decent person and that your bureaucrats are expert manipulators. However, you do not seem willing to talk to me personally so that you might get the correct information. I must say that I was also deeply disturbed by a comment Mr. Roy made yesterday confirming that you did not write your reasons for decision as you have always claimed, but rather, that you merely edited a portion of it; the political component I suspect.

I therefore wish to inform you that I will not have any further dealings with your staff either in writing or verbally. You have the information upon which to base your decision before you. I also understand that Eugene Williams has been in Vancouver since last week. I am sure that he need only ask the RCMP about my credibility and you will get the assurance you need.

Since 1995 both my father and I have been offering you that we would take a lie detector test. The RCMP would have liked to have done one recently with my father but were precluded from doing so because of the medication he is now on as a result of Mr. Gray's inaction. I am still willing to submit to one provided it is done immediately and as part of an investigation done independently by the RCMP and authorized by you pursuant to your powers under s.690 CCC.

I believe you have to make a decision about my credibility. Whatever your decision I am sure the criminals' lawyers will be watching your assessment of that as well. Sal also told me that an incredible amount of money has been spent to keep my father in prison. I don't have any idea on whom or where this money is being spent.

Rumor has it that Bob Stewart, the VCPD police chief of the day in 1983 is now becoming quite concerned about it becoming public knowledge that an illegal wire tap was in place at the Penthouse when Joe was killed. Seems a prostitution related investigation was afoot. Mind you this is just rumor so far. (Is this the same Bob Stewart who sits on the Parole Board which scuttled my father's Clemency application?)

I cannot believe for a moment that there is widespread public confidence in my father's conviction. That alone makes it unsafe to uphold. If you however are still not convinced that there is something seriously wrong with the conviction then, again, I urge you to authorize the RCMP to conduct a new investigation. They cannot otherwise do one without the express consent of the VCPD and this is not forthcoming. In any event, my 63-year-old father is presently locked up in a maximum security prison waiting for you and the Liberal government to do what is morally right.

From this point forward I will deal only yourself and/or Gary Bass of the RCMP acting on behalf of the crown. Meanwhile I will continue my public awareness campaign to ensure your accountability to both my family and the Canadian public who elected you. It seems that everyone from CSC to the RCMP are treating this seriously - isn't it about time your people stopped playing games?

Sincerely,

Tami Morrisroe

cc. Yvan Roy (613) 941-4122

Mitch Taylor by facsimile (604) 775-5942

RCMP by facsimile (604) 543-4856

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