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April 22, 2014

Public Curator Update

1. Upon speaking to the information centre on the phone the gentlemen said that if I am simply diagnosed as mentally incompetent by a certified expert then I am not eligible for the protection of the Public Curator.   I must be declared, not diagnosed as mentally incompetent, by a recognized expert before they can even begin to look at my case.

2. I went to visit the office of the Public curator.  It is on Rene Levesque Boulevard a street down from the Bay department store on Ste. Catherine.

My father said two things. 

There is no money from the estate but there is an estate: house, industrial buildings, antiques and heirlooms.

He also said that when my mother died I would be living on about $40,000.00 a year and would be taken off the social assistance.  This is a crucial event.

 

3. I asked the family (my brother) if I was certified mentally incompetent.  I recall my father saying that when he passed away and that was under the responsibility of two people just about his age when he died.  And after my mother dies I will be under someone else’s responsibility.  One of the people is my brother.  I do not remember clearly who is being given responsibility for me and I do not know who has declared me mentally incompetent and for what reason.

3.At the time, I stated that I do not think that my brother will be just in carrying out my monetary affairs and that I would prefer to go to the public curator to have someone else at least in a consulting role to manage my part of the estate.  To put It more clearly having seen the way the estate was handled in the past, there is such an extreme conflict of interest between my brother, his extended family and myself that there is no way he will be able to actively distribute the estate and its assets in a just manner.

One thing that I have noticed, is the living situation that I have been put in has been so contrary to being what I was brought up to believe was so denied that the anguish that I experienced was dealt with in two ways:

Either I was insane and there was no logical reason for the insanity.

Or it was flatly ignored.

When I was accepted for university and I was working extremely hard to do so, I was told that I could not go to university. I was informed that I was not to leave the community I was raised in.  ever.  This was repeated before the last year of university was completed.  I knew then and I know even more now that my work was being used out of the community and I would never get compensation or credentials for it.

1.       I fear that, I am put in the role of liking to be so poor much like the horribly injured people who are begging on the street, often crippled in wheelchairs.  They are always accompanied and because their extreme injuries are so severe they are reputed to be “magic” and in no need of any kind of sum of money or treatment whatsoever.  On the contrary, what money comes their way gets confiscated by their able bodied friends.  I wonder, if this is deemed to be my situation.  I must state quite clearly if this is so it is completely forced and against my will. 

2.       I am such a position of poverty that I am accorded a “homeless” bed by an order that prides itself in its austerity.

 

 He will explain the way the estate is being divided and as has been my experience to this date, there will be a good chance that I will be living in extraordinarily abject poverty.  So extreme has been the poverty that I have been living in, I wonder, if on paper there has been even an attempt to explain my poverty and my use of the estate in a logical manner.

3.       I would like the services of the Public Curator to:

4.       Make sure that I am not once more, as in the past, put on the street without shelter and forced to seek refuge in a half-way house which is part of the jail system.

5.       Secure the valuables in my family estate: the family collected extremely expensive furniture and dishes and my mother had her jewelry so that they could use it as fluid capital.  The idea was that these objects would increase in their value as time went by while the money in the bank always decreased in their value.  Suffice it to say this is the fluid capital that I have been left, my brother calls it junk and says it has to be distributed to the anonymous poor and the house sold quickly and at a low cost.  If this is so all the value of the collection would be lost.