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.

 

 

 

The Tragedy

 What I witnessed on November 7 2025 was the abandonment of fiduciary law.  The deconstructing  has been going on for years. The absurdity of it.  The harm of it.  I am not smart and there is nothing I can do.  I quiver with tears.

   

Ghosted

 This is what I said in an affidavit January 10 2025.  

I told the beneficiaries that if they want to gift Jenny the rents due and owing to the estate they could do it  from their share of their inheritances  Again, I was ghosted.  For me this isn't only about the money, it is about the unethical stealth way, the probate was being done.  I expected honesty from the beneficiaries and due process from the lawyers.  What I got was uncertainty, stress, and betrayal, distrust of the legal process, and the lost of all hope of any meangful reunion with family members going forward.  

Note: The rent covered 2.5 years.  It was for a 4,000 square foot home on 20 acres of land outstide of Kamloops (Dallas), a ranch (with a pool) that would keep horses.  There was an estate settlement agreement and the estate lawyer wanted all the beneficiaries to sign off as there was some urgency, a red flag. The estate settlement agreement was designed so the administrator did not have to pay rent.  The beneficiaries who signed the agreement thought it was okay because they just wanted their inheritance, even at a steep discount. And they did not even inquire what the rent should have been.  Buyer beware. The estate was being looted in plain sight. And the beneficiaries were duped. 

Do you have privacy if you are dead

 According to the constitution, we have the right to life, liberty and security of person.  If a person is dead or declared a non-person, that person has no right to privacy.   Once you are dead, you no longer need security of person. 

Thus, if a person is physically dead or is a non-person (civil death) then there would be no reason for agencies like the public guardian and trustee not to share contact information.  I want to know if my neighbour is vulnerable.

And, once a person is said to be incapable under an enduring power of attorney and/or a section 9 representation agreement, the person is civilly dead and he has no right to privacy. 

The banks monitor their clients for abuse and so should neighbours.  

I would like to know if my neighbour has agency.  A non-person cannot make a contract.  

My definition of "neighbour" means globally.  

With privacy comes the death of historians:  how can history be written without access to information.

Court Ordered Committee or Committee by Certificate of Incapability

 I find the Court Ordered Committee and Committee by Certificate of Incapability very confusing.

It seems that a Court Ordered Committee has transparency, but the Certificate of Incapability does not.

There is something inherently wrong with the Certificate of Incapability process.  It reminds me of the process the Star Chamber Courts followed in England centuries ago.  Decisions were made in secrecy without due process and with no appeal. The tribunal was allowed to torture an accused but not kill him, much like giving morphine to a patient but not killing him.  But if you torture an accused too much or if you give a patient too much morphine, they will die.  

The Public Guardian and Trustee does an investigation, makes a recommendation, sends it to a health authority designate (an employee of VCHA), and after reading the recommendation, the HAD signs the certificate, probably from the bottom of his "to-do list." The subjected person becomes a nonperson, and the Public Guardian and Trustee becomes the committee of this now nonperson who before was a person. What happens to the nonperson if he was relocated...I do not know, and there is no way for the public to know, as such information is confidential.

Under privacy, the public is not entitled to know.  In New Zealand, identifying those under guardianship is against the law.  And the person elected cannot identify himself. And the press is gagged. It must be the same in British Columbia. These evils must be replicated in other jurisdictions.  

I remember when Randy, my husband, was being relocated by VGH to a long care facility, no one at VCH would tell me what happened to him.  I still remember the terror of not knowing. From the day of his accident and for six months, I visited Randy every day. Never had a problem.  When I approached the nursing station, the eight nurses at the nursing station looked down at me as if they enjoyed watching me being in a state of confusion and terror. Not one of them broke rank and told me.  And they all knew. Again it was privacy.  It was against policy to tell where a patient was being transferred to. The nurses did not tell me that it was a privacy/policy thing. It was cruel. And what would have happened to anyone of them if one of them told me. Nothing. The absurdity of privacy.  It harms.  It does not protect. It isolates.  It drove me to the edge of madness.

My mind went back to the first time I spoke with a social worker at VGH, it was the end of her shift, and she was in a hurry to leave.  Her words to me were to forget about Randy as they would look after him. And she ran out the door. Who were they? And who was she? From that moment on, I became inwardly afraid but I did not know why. The social worker's foregone conclusion was based on arrogant stupidity. Later I learned that a social worker is an officer of the court, and I was right to be apprehensive.