PGT goes Ultra Vires

 PGT goes UltraVires

The PGT robbed me of my inheritance

 The PGT robbed me of my inheritance and the court approved their scheme. 

June 3 2026 : Stealth Passing of Accounts by the B C Public Guardian and Trustee: To Serve To Protect. A masterminded shell game.

 I have had with the PGT and Candace Cates (the lawyer for my sister).  From the very beginning when Candace sent me an Estate Settlement Agreement with the expectation that I would sign it, and her subsequent behavior because I did not sign it, these behavior are killing me (cut me) by a thousand cuts.  Anything I had anything to do with Candace and Heather Mathison the lawyer for the PGT, a further cut, a further cut.  I am to the point now I am expended.  

What this is about is that the PGT did not vet expenses that my sister wanted in her capacity as my brother's caregiver (committee of person).  The expenses were not vetted/audited by the PGT properly as to who really benefitted from them.  If the PGT could not prove the expenses then the PGT would be surcharged and the expense (or part of the expense not used by my brother) would have to  reimbursed to the estate by the PGT. The PGT's statement of account covered 597 pages.  

Fast forward to June 3 2026 a hearing was to be scheduled and I was the person who had to schedule it.  It was in Kamloops and the dates available were for September. I have been mentioned to the other lawyers of my difficulties, problems with my computer, stress, health conditions for months.  It did not matter, Candace and Heather went behind my back and had the registrar of scheduling change the venue of the court to Vancouver and advance the date to June 24 for my convenience so a senior did not have to travel by bus to Kamloops.  I objected as I knew the timeline would not give me enough time to prepare.  I was told that I fit into the "box" the registrar had, no exceptions.  That I could appeal his decision by asking a chamber's judge to overrule his decision. I did not realize the registrar's "letter" was a court order.  I thought the letter was just a letter.  Appealing a court order is near impossible,  there has to be some legal issue and a standard of correctiveness which was absent. Heather reminding me to seek counsel is an insult when she knew no lawyer would take me on.  She knew no appellant litigator would take on additional work on short notice.  They are a mini-trial.  They require a great deal of work and for a self-litigant multi hours/days to prepare to ask that a comma be moved.  At the June 3 2026 the chamber's judge said that he could not do anything as he had to defer to the registrar's untested box, criteria used by the registrar.

As we exited the chamber's room, I noticed a court security officer obviously "shielding" Heather. I realized that Heather had asked security to protect her. I hope the PGT is giving Heather extra "danger" pay.  Better yet, the court should bill the PGT for protecting Heather from an 80 year old woman.This is intimidation and cutting humiliation. The real reason was to show the judge that the PGT counsel had to enlist security to handle an adjournment to subtly infer to the justice and others in the courtroom that I was "crazy." When I asked Heather if she did call security, she told me that she would not talk to me. 

Heather wanted a fast closing date to the appeal hearing as she knew I would not be prepared.  A self-rep can't just go in front a panel of three appeal judges, not being prepared or better yet be as I am now emotionally expended that I would just quit. If the appeal does not go forward the PGT keeps its "blessed" reputation of protecting the vulnerables and protecting their estates. If the PGT's case was so great, they would have no reason to cut me with a thousand cuts and pay Heather to do it. Every action of Heather and Candace has been calculating to this end.

Heather sent me an Order yesterday confirming that my application to vary the scheduling direction of the registrar is dismissed and I had to pay the costs of the application, the application package for them opposing the adjournment was 95 pages long.  Do you have any idea how much it would cost to pay a lawyes for that package to adjourning a hearing.  How simple can an adjournment be.  But I was wrong an adjournment is a mini-trial with full tariff costing. .  

The June 24 hearing is for an appeal and no senior appeal lawyer would ever approach such a hearing if he was not prepared.  Arranging dates are done by consent among lawyers projecting months ahead to ensure that they will be prepared by their own estimation but if you are not a lawyer, then you fit in a box to which you cannot escape. To arrange a comfortable date all a lawyer has to say his calendar is full.  Like Candace said that she had a 30 day trial in Kamloops in September/October and it would be most expedient to have the hearing on June 24 2026. It would assist the mandate of the appeal court to a fair and speedy hearing. Nevermind if I would be adequately prepared or not. I know what my limitations and expectations are.  When I asked for Candace for the confirmation of the 30 day trial I received no reply. If she lied to the court, then she should be disbarred.  

A few days before the June 3 hearing, Heather said that if I agreed to a condition which is confidential that they will agree to a date being September 8 2026, a condition that they safely knew from my past behavior I would not agree to. Candace and Heather were in a big rush and now they are going to give me three monts to prepare. At the time of the offer they had already prepared all the documents and within 1.5 hours after I said I would agree to the September 8 2026 hearing deleting the condition, the documents were filed and I was served with stamped copies by courier. Remarkable quick preparation and timing.  Now they can say that Audrey was given three more months to prepare but she refused so now they look like they are accommodating.  That is not possible.  Once a registrar makes a direction counsel cannot change it by consent. It was to overwhelm me and make me crazy. 

Let's not digress from the point that the PGT wants to shield itself from surcharges that it would have to pay for not properly vetting for necessary expenses for my brother's direct care. Think expense accounts not vetted and approved by the same person who spent the money. That is what this is all about.  Stealth passing of accounts. And they accomplished it by poisoning the well. My motive has always been to see that the probate is done properly.  I had no improper motive. My sister never wanted to be the administrator but she told me she was pressured into it.  There was a backroom deal wherein if Jenny would be the administrator, my brother's $18,000 legal fee would be paid by the estate, and Jenny's occupation rent would be waived. Lawyers broker for their legal fees. They do not care who they hurt, it is just windfall money.  And who negotiated this settlement agreement, Leah Card.  The Canadian lawyer of the year, a go-to expert in estates.  And who suffered from this backroom deal, me, Natalie and Stephanie as our inheritances would be reduced. And Jenny and Ron had no idea that they were robbing us. Monies have to come from somewhere to finance the shell game.

Affdavit of Mackenzie Bennett Banks May 29 2026

 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. But it did.  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 and 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.  No consideration that I had another court case scheduled for May 5 which was stressing for me and I was working 24/7 on everything. 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) learn the learning curve to prepare oral submissions properly and get some sleep.  That did not suit the PGT so Heather went behind my back and arranged with the registry for a June 24 date and moved the hearing from Kamloops to Vancouver saying I was a senior and the bus trip would tire me for court.  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 proposed 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 fees 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 with exhibits telling the court that I owe Mussio my x-lawyer who is not an appellant lawyer $10,000..  Chilling effect.