Affdavit of Mackenzie Bennett Banks

 In the affidavit Banks (lawyer for PGT) sworn:  June 2 2026 blogged. 

Paragraph 13.  With Respect to Ms. Laferriere's intention to delay this matter.

a.  I attach as Exhibit F ...This affidavit confirms that "Audrey stated that she will fight until there are no monies left in the Estate." Affidavit of Ronald Popove.

b.  I attach as Exhibit G ..thatAudrey has stated that "she wold do anything to delay the administration of the Estate, so that Ronald Popove does not get his inheritance. 

I never said.  They were fabrications.  Why would I want to delay the estate. How sick is the PGT to entertain such lies to be put into affidavits by their lawyer, Heather Mathison.  They are not logical and what was the purpose.  

The slander was part of a package to my Form 4 where I asked that the court adjourn the June 24 2026 hearing, a hearing which Heather went behind my back to arrange when it was my job to arrange as I was the appellant.  Both Heather and Candace work by legal stealth and half truths.  

And me asking for an adjournment necessitated that Heather construct 95 pages of noise.  All she had to say at the June 3 hearing, Jenny, Ron, Stephanie, Natalie and the PGT object.  The reason because they want to close the PGT file asap.  The day after the Grant was issued to my sister the administrator, the passing of the accounts could have been initiated (September 16 2024) but no the PGT waited until October 8 2025 to file its summary application to pass its accounts with a returnable date November 3 2025.  There were 597 pages containing 10 - 12 items each page and the PGT wanted it approved and consented to by November 3. I crashed the party (the court) and for doing so I had costs of $40,000 slapped against me for interferring as I had no standing, only my sister had standing, that is only she could attend and swear the 587 pages of account listings were consented to and approved.  The fact that my sister withdrew on October 28 2025 because there was an apprehension of conflict therefore there was no one who could approve and consent to the accounts and therefore the passing of accounts should never have happened. Fast forward I appealed the Order as a beneficiary as I wanted the accounts tested. It is an audit, how was the money spent.  Maybe an audit would only disclosure honesty but I had a right to know.  Preparing for an appeal is very time consuming and labour intensive as the roadblock is the learning curve, learning the process and the legal code used by the appeal process. And considering I can't remember my postal code it has been very tough.  Finally on April 21 the appeal was court ready.  Court ready does not mean that the lawyers are ready as there still is a lot of work to be done which might take 4 - 6 months for a senior appeal lawyer as he will not be rushed as court of appeal decisions are serious decisions, they change law.  But the PGT decided that since the file was court ready I should also be ready.  Since I was the appellant it was me who had to arrange (Form 5) for an appeal hearing date. I consulted with the Appeal Registry as the file was a Kamloops file and I was told that dates were available in September 2026.  That would give me enough time to review all the documents (thousands of pages) and the learning curve to prepare oral submissions properly.  That wasn't good enough for Heather so she went behind my back and arranged with the registry for a June 24 date thus moving the hearing from Kamloops to Vancouver because I was an old lady and the bus trip would tire me.  The point is what was the rush when it was the PGT along with the administrator that caused the delay in the first place. Think about it 95 pages of mostly emails back and forth presenting a history to the Court of my alleged dilatory behavior.  And the Order of Heather is telling the court that she wants me to pay for the adjournment if it given or not.  I figure 95 pages at $100 a page is $9,500. You can always tell how much an application will cost by counting the pages. Rule of thumb counting all legal fess etc one page = $100.  I have tried unsuccessfully to hire a lawyer.  It is very difficult to find a senior appellant lawyer to do a modest estate.  So I have to put up with litigation abuse.  I feel like I am being killed with a thousand cuts. Think 95 pages to ask for an adjournment.  Chilling effect.  Remarkable. 

Follow the money, PGT v. me

 I just received documentation from the lawyer for the PGT (May 29 2026).  Upon the instructions of the PGT, she has issued a Response to my Form 4 asking that the hearing scheduled for June 24 not be adjourned for multiple reasons. I was causing unnecessary delay. There was also an 87-page affidavit.  You should see the rubbish the affidavit has. They never said that I was after money, just that I hated my brother and I did not want him to get his inheritance.  If he never got his inheritance, I would not get mine either. The reason for the delay.

The served documentation did not include my answer Form 4 to the court filed May 19 2026, an inconvenient truth for thePGT.

Heather's response in paragraph 30 is "The Respondents appreciate that this may be complex and stressful for the Appellant, and she ought to have some time to prepare. But this is her choice to pursue these matter in court and there should not be unreasonable delay." Isn't that a dumb statement, that I should be unduly stressed over what the PGT did and would not remedy. It is the PGT who should be on trial here, not me. And to any delay I can argue the delay was caused by the administrator and her lawyer and then the lawyer for the PGT. A recent delay was sending out a statement of account.  This was done in February 2025 and yet the PGT did not file its application until October 8 2025. That same statement could have been provided June 28 2024, being the day after the Grant was issued.  Mussio said that the PGT is as slow as molasses and now I am being accused of  delaying everything. The beneficiaries were given an interim distribution of their inheritances and Candace Cates was paid $83,000 her interim invoice for her professional fees. No one was hurting.

It was not my choice to get involved; it was my duty to get involved.  Fiducary law (Estate law)was being abused. And my sister initially wanted me to become the administrator then she changed her mind after she hired Candace Cates to be her lawyer. I agreed that if my sister changed her mind, we could coadministrer. On August 15 2023 I served my P1 form by registered mail on all the beneficiaries:  Jenny Mead, Ron Popove, Stephanie Willett, Natalie Willett, and the PGT.  No one told me that they opposed my application, least of all Jenny. We had renewed our distant relationship. That is what you do when you reach the end of life, you forgive and reach out to your estranged family.

 It was NINE months later after Jenny hired Candace Cates that I was advised of the popularity contest. Lawyer only want to deal with one administrator, preferrably someone who has no idea what fiduciary duties mean.  

For decades, the PGT allowed my sister to use the PGT as her once-removed personal ATM to apportion assets from my brother's estate for her own use. By using the Patient's Property Act the PGT escaped being accountable for any lack of oversight. And unless the appeal is set aside (the Order of Justice Crerar November 7 2025) the expenses will not be tested as to whether or not they were necessary.  If expenses were not necessary the PGT could be required to reimburse the estate for the PGT's failure to do its job. Using a PPA loophole is what the PGT uses to settle most of its estates or maybe all of them.  

My sister was part of the rodeo circuit which is a very expensive hobby. She would siphon whatever she needed from the estate by claiming it was for my brother.  My brother did not even like horses.  When she was committee of the estate and my brother's caregiver, she purchased a 20-acre rural property to augment her lifestyle and board her numerous horses.  When my mother was alive, she would care for my brother and after my mother died, she had the PGT pay a companion up to $8,000 a month so she had time to groom her horses. When you spoke to her she would complain she was struggling financially. She had a $100,000 horse trailer parked in front of the house. The property had a 4,000 square foot fully finished two level home on it.  She was my brother's caregiver and lived there rent free, she never had to pay for a light bulb. When she purchased the house, there was a swimming pool on it for my brother's use, and she had it filled-in and a construction fence installed enclosing 2,000 square feet so her other animals had somewhere to be. She had a lot of animals. Prior to purchasing the rural property, my brother owned a home in Kamloops proper.  There he was close to the amenities a person with a disability should have.  

Even telling the Respondents of my disabilities (age being foremost) they did not care.  What cruelty.  They had arranged their Reply to my application to adjourn the appeal, weeks in advance. The minute I objected to their preemptory condition for the September 8, 2026 hearing, they filed the package in the court registry and delivered it to me within one hour.  I could not agree to a preemptory condition as I could not know what the future is. And there is no rush for the PGT to pass its accounts.  All the monies were paid out and all they are doing is trying to prevent me from being prepared for the appeal hearing. The reason for the 87 page affidavit.  The way the PGT has structured the probate is that the PGT is separate from the estate hearing.  There is nothing stopping the administrator from paying out the rest of the monies and keeping a holdback for taxes.  

And I note on page 4 the PGT wants the costs of this adjournment be awarded to the Respondents payable in any event ot he cause which means even if the chamber's judge allows the matter to be heard after the summer court recess, that I should pay for everyone's costs as well.  That means they want me  to pay for the 87 page affidavit discrediting me.  Let's talk about the lawyers: Heather Matheson, Candace Cates, Leah Card, Wes Mussio and Stan Rule.

 

 

 

My friend Paul.

 Besides my other stressful project, I still haven't been able to connect with some authority that will tell me anything.  Paul suffered a suddent death on April 1 2026 and no one will give me any information. He told me of his wishes for his interment and his housing is sitting empty chalking up I am sure rent payments that will have to pay from his estate.  

Fuck those privacy nuts who allow this to happen because he does not have a next of kin.  Maybe he does not want a next of kin.  Nothing is going to happen if the City of Vancouver who owns the property talks to me.  The BC Coroner is just as bad.  I suspect that I must be on their "purple dot" list, do not communicate with me.  There is such a thing. 

Not in Brtish Columbia

 There is legislation called the Patient's Property Act which is supposed to protect the Patient from financial ruin.  But this Act which is very confusing/ambiguous to understand is particular only to British Columbia. In 2001 the Act was amended to say Section 24(3) that after death the administrator must be provided with the PGT's accounts. I do not know what provides mean. Does it mean give, deliver, transfer, convey, supply, pass, toss. The lawyers have managed to interprete it to the nth degree of confusion. 

False Affidavit

 I keep thinking about the false affidavit.  My brother would not have known what the motive of the lawyers were.  They wanted to establish a pattern of me being being a calculating bitch to delay the probate for personal reasons of revenege. A pattern of behavior that courts allow lawyers to do, do not like but tolerate. Why would I want to delay the probate, I am 80 years old and my brother is 79 years old. It is classic litigation strategy to unsettle me and also to influence the court of my credibility.  I need the inheritence as my brother is well set up, his large home is paid for and both he and his wife get pension support. It is me that lives in a one-room studio basement suite. 

I am sure there is some kind of litigation strategy assigned to that abuse of tricking their own clients to swear an affidavit. 

My sister has delayed the probate as (1) she delayed getting her lawyer to act promptly and (2) she wanted to live in the home for as long as possible to avoid moving and wanting occupation rent ($5,000 a month) forgiven.  She could have purchased it but no she said she wanted to downsize. She lived there for 2.5 years rent free, then moved. The rent money could be used to earn interest. There was a faint promise that the rent issue will be resolved at the passing of accounts. What does that mean when rent should have been paid from December 1 2022. Any adjustments could be paid at the passing of accounts. It is now going on 4 years and she has yet to make a rent payment.  And she had the money.  

In a letter directed to the court April 30 2026, the lawyers for the PGT and the administer included their truth:  Affidavit evidence (the affidavit of Ron) indicates that Ms. Laferriere has expessed an intention to cause delay. Going on two years later, they are still using that reference. I am tired of their insults.  Their insults to shield their respective clients from bad behavior. 

 

Another delayed day

 I just woke up, again soaking wet, exhausted.

Yesterday I had to go a distance to a printer who helps me with printing.four hours.  I left my place at 2:00 oclock.  I like the public transit as it is faster than other means of transportation and less stressful.  So I walk the one block from my place.  I wait for ten minutes, a bus comes and races past me, I was annoyed.  I then waited for the next bus, the same thing.  A lady passing by said that the bus stop was rerouted to the next stop which was four blocks away.  This was due to construction.  I got on the bus and at the other end I had to walk three block to the printer.  There I had to wait as the printer was waiting for me as I was bringing three hole binders to which the pages had to be inserted.  He then three holed punched the pages and inserted them in the binders.  That took time.  Then I had to wait to pay my bill which was $238.21.  I had to return walk the three block to the bus stop.  I had to navigate everything with a push cart becaue of the volume of the two binders.  Very heavy. By this time the bus was packed from students as the bus was packed.  I stopped at Fresh Foods to purchase three items; fruit and milk.  As I was on the bus I became terribly fatigues.  I finally got home alowly walking and had to sleep.  It is now fourteen hours later.  Each day is getting very hard.  

My brother, Ronald Popove

Audrey Laferriere <audreyjlaferriere@gmail.com>	2:53 PM (0 minutes ago)
to Ronald

I got the message that you instead of just offering no comment to the payment of the Mussio account,

your loudly offered your opinion.  I therefore have come to the conclusion that you knew what you were signing in the affidavit.

You and your wife lied.  That affidavit has caused me a great deal of mischaracterization in the court paperwork.

How could you.  

You lied to me about Tina's estate that there was no money and yet everyone got $5,000 each exceot me.

I did not know this until I read the accounts of the PGT.

You used that money for your own self.

Also about Helen's car, it wasn't a pile of junk, you convinced her of it.

It was in the best condition it could be for a woman who only drove it to her church.

And if it was a pile of junk how were you able to sell it for a profit.

I keep thinking that blood is thicker than water, but I am concluding otherwise.