Chapter 5: Old Man
“TAKE A LOOK AT MY LIFE”
By the spring of 2004, the case had already dragged on for seven years. Donald Broder was seventy-five years old, frail, and confined to a wheelchair. He had no criminal record, no history of violence, and no reason to believe he would ever see the inside of a jail cell.
That changed on April 23, 2004, when Justice Myra Bielby of the Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench ordered Donald into custody. The charge? None. He was not a convicted man. Yet the justice system saw fit to place him in the Edmonton Remand Centre, a maximum-security facility designed for accused criminals awaiting trial.
For eleven days, Donald endured what the family would later call “unspeakable behavior and treatment of an elderly, unwell man.” Sometimes he was placed in isolation. Medical care was sporadic. Food came late, and when it came, it was hardly food at all—cold pancakes, cold potatoes. It was the kind of neglect that would be inexcusable for any detainee, let alone a senior citizen in poor health.
The family could not reconcile the reality before them with the country they thought they knew. In their open letter, they wrote with bitter irony:
“We understood that the Government of Canada had Donald H. Broder incarcerated so they could take good care of him. Surely, the Alberta Justice Department would only incarcerate an innocent 75-year-old senior citizen because the Governments of Canada treat prisoners better than the elderly?”
Donald Broder was jailed on April 23, 2004, escorted to and from Court by our finest Edmonton Police Services everyday starting on April 26, 2004. Donald Broder would not agree to tell them what he did with the Broder Buck so Justice Bielby would Order him back into custody at Edmonton Remand Center, never being charged or read his Miranda Rights. The stated reason was almost unbelievable. Justice Bielby had seen him in a wheelchair and determined that he needed someone to push it so he would show up in court every day. The solution, apparently, was to have him remanded again so that “one of Edmonton’s finest” could wheel him to and from to courtroom day after day and save him on motel rooms and meals at restaurant’s as his home was over 3 hour drive south of Edmonton.
For the Broder family, it was a moment that cut deeper than any legal loss. This was no longer about procedural rules or property rights—it was about dignity, humanity, and the shocking ease with which both could be stripped away.
“To treat a senior citizen in such a cruel and inhumane manner,” the family wrote, “is a direct violation of the values Canadians hold dear. This is not how we treat our elders—individuals who have contributed to society, raised families, and paid their taxes with the reasonable expectation that, in their final years, they would be treated with care, respect, and dignity.”
The expectation was shattered. The open letter called on then-Premier Alison Redford to apologize, refund damages, and commit to legislation protecting vulnerable seniors from similar treatment. The demand remains unanswered to this day.
For Donald, the experience was more than an indignity—it was a warning. If the system could do this to him, an elderly man in a wheelchair, it could happen to anyone.
What had begun as a dispute over a deer rack was now something larger. The fight had moved beyond the walls of the courthouse, into the realm of human rights, government accountability, and the uncomfortable question of what “justice” in Alberta really meant.
The Alberta Justice Department is responsible for the recording audio in Edmonton, Alberta Law Courts so when an formal Appeal is filed and the Appeal Books are ordered as per The Alberta Court of Appeal rules.
See below under PART III – Evidence and we asked ourselves,
Where are Donald Broder’s Opening Statements not within the transcripts of The Alberta Court of Appeal Books and listed under table of contents immediately following “Opening Statement by Ms. MacInnis.“
The Broder families first thought was that one of the lawyers or clerk that prepares the The Alberta Court of Appeal Books and removed Donald Broder opening statements and modified the table of contents.
So, to find out how The Opening Statements disappeared Donald Broder reordered a new transcription from Alberta Justice of the first and last day of the trial and paid to have them couriered directly to him. When the transcripts were completed for the first day, January 19, 2004 the day Donald Broder’s opening statements were read the trial start day and the last day of the trial January 23, 2004 when Donald Broder’s closing arguments were read. The transcripts were delivered and there was our answer, the opening statements of Donald Broder were still missing from the transcripts, we wrote to Alberta Justice Transcript Management Services below is their response.
Donald Broder’s Opening Statements were gone, disappeared, deleted or erased.
“Below” the printed version of Donald Broder’s OPENING STATEMENTS that disappeared off the court audio and were read on the morning of January 19, 2004 immediately following The Plaintiff’s opening Statements read by Ms. MacInnis.
Canada, as some politician declare a country of law and order, others say a country of corruption, money laundering, fraud and extortion. The Alberta Justice Department led by Doug Schweitzer; Minister of Justice and Solicitor General and now it’s Mickey Amery all were appointed by the Premier of Alberta, as the Minister in charge of The Administration of Justice and have been made aware of the criminals implanted within every corner of the Canadian Justice Systems and responds by saying they cannot get involved with matters before the courts, their office is non-partisan or if I get involved I would have to step down from being an MP, MLA or Minister and lose my pension.
Well, lucky someone is PARTISAN and has something to say!
BELOW – The Table of NO-Contents for the Application for leave to The Supreme Court of Canada.
Marvin R. Bloos E-mail: bloos@appeals.ca
BERESH DEPOE CUNNINGHAM
Marvin R. Bloos was Donald Broder’s criminal lawyer and also prepared the Application for leave to The Supreme Court of Canada and as shown below
THE TABLE OF NO-CONTENTS that was prepared by Bloos and filed with The Supreme Court of Canada.
This is unimaginable that those who are innocent become victims of Judicial crimes here in Canada, it all starts with a wink and a nod, then that opens the doors for the lawyers to wipe you out, use the RCMP to force entry into your home and defraud you’re elderly wife of more than $235,000.00 to secure the release of her elderly husband fake imprisonment at Edmonton Remand Center.
EXTORTION BY ELIZABETH MACINNIS OF WEIR BOWEN LLP
See the date below – Wednesday May 5, 2004
See the date below on the transfer from TD Canada Trust to LAC CER TR – May 3, 2004 two days prior to Donald Broder’s release from Jail above dated May 5, 2004.
Conspiracy to Defraud by Elizabeth MacInnis of Wier Bowen LLP, acting for the Plaintiff’s and in collusion with the Defendant’s lawyers, Bryan Kickham of Miller Thomson LLP, Guy Lacourciere of Lacourciere Cervini LLP, and Marvin Bloos of Beresh Depoe Cunningham LLP to frame the innocent by orchestrating the outcome to falsely jail an innocent man while extorting $235,347.30 from his elderly wife to buy his way out of The Edmonton Remand Center.
Victims of Canadian Judicial Crimes that are similar to what the NAZI’s did during WWII.
Joyce M. Broder December 6, 1929 – September 23, 2011
Donald H. Broder October 11, 1929 – April 11, 2012
The OLD MAN caught them before he passed and now these criminals have been exposed to all readers for whom should walk in when the rest of the world walks out.
Your voices need to be heard, because the media is afraid to report the truth.
I’m his real friend are you?
