26 April 2005
Telephone call to Mr. Justice Normand Glaude

By the 26 April 2005 I have had no response from Justice Glaude, Mr. Brownell,
or Attorney General Michael Bryant.  I decide to go right to the man himself:  
I call Mr. Justice Glaude at his Sudnury office.

It proves to be an interesting conversation.  

Justice Glaude first, and understandably, quizzes me on who I am and my interest
in the inquiry.

I then ask if he received my e-mail. "What email"? he asks, and which address did
I send it to?  

I tell the judge it was a hotmail address. He questions that and seems to be convinced 
I couldn't possibly have sent an email to a hotmail adress bearing his name.  I affirm 
it was a hotmail address, and that yes, I did think it was strange that it was a hotmail 
address, but that was the email address I found and the one I used.

He asks again what address, still seemingly taken aback that I had this hotmail adress
in my possession.  I finally dig out the address and read it aloud. He confirms that it 
is his email address.  He promptly and sharply asks:   "Where did you get that?"

 I tell him I found it on the net. 

He seems skeptical, and again he asks where I got it.  I tell him again.  Then he asks 
how I knew it was his e-mail. 

I explain that I knew it was his because it was posted beside his Sudbury office address.
 
He still seems more than puzzled that I got his hotmail address and I begin to get the 
very clear impression I am not supposed to have it and that he thinks I attained it through
some untoward means.  I did not.  It was publicly available on the internet.

As we speak, the judge says he will check his hotmail to see if my email is there. While 
he works to access his acount, he tells me that he doesn't use that address very often.

He checks, and says there is no e-mail there from me.  I say that is strange because it 
didn't bounce back to me so I assumed it had to have been delivered. 

Justice Glaude replies that, oh well, he sometimes gets a lot of mail there and when he 
does they (the hotmail people) just empty out the excess.  

He suggests I re-send the e-mail to his office and provides an email address.  I agree, 
but tell him there is one issue I would like to address while I am speaking to him. 

He speaks slowly, prolonging the word:

 "Yeeesss?"

 I ask if he is the son of Aurele Glaude and Aline Robineau, born 05 Nov 1954. 

 "Perrrhaaaps."

I am shocked, and momentarily silent!

He breaks into the silence to ask what difference would that make?

I say that efforts were presumably made to ensure that the inquiry judge has no Cornwall 
connection.

At that, the judge tells me that his grandfather died 35 years ago.

I tell him that he still has relatives in the area.

He essentially relplies "Weellll, I suppoose you are just going to have to question my bias 
at the start of the inquiry."

Again I am shocked. I question to make sure I heard correctly:   "At the start of the inquiry?"

"Yeeesss"

I then tell Justice Glaude that I will still send the email because I also have concerns about 
the mandate and have been unable to get anyone to address them.

A slow and prolonged: "Whhaatt kind of concerns ?"

I relate my concern that the mandate is so broad that it is not applicable to the situation in 
Cornwall.

And a slow and prolonged: "Weelll, I suuuppoosse you're just going to have to ask for 
standing then to raise your concerns."

End of conversation.