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Procedure – Conspiracy – Whether Canadian judges have a duty to disclose their membership in or association with a secret society – Whether the Government of Canada and Government of British Columbia have a duty to answer Interrogatories concerning membership of government employees or officers in Freemasonry – Whether the refusal of a judge to disclose his or her membership in or association with Freemasonry raise a reasonable apprehension of bias – Whether the Income Tax Act (1985) is valid legislation if the Income Tax Act (1948) is determined to have been a nullity – Whether the Income Tax Act (1948) was properly enacted in accordance with the mandatory provisions of the British North America Act – Whether the executive branch of government has the right to infringe Charter rights and freedoms secured by international treaty through the use of the criminal law – Whether the Unlawful Oaths Act (1797) and the Unlawful Societies Act (1799) prohibit Freemasons from acting as judges in Canada – Whether the Court of Appeal for British Columbia correct in its interpretation of the ambit and application of the ruling on the Supreme Court of Canada in the case of Ward v. The City of Vancouver, [2010] 2 S.C.R. 28.

This leave application arises from a challenge to the jurisdiction of the B.C. Supreme Court to dismiss a civil claim brought as a result of alleged improprieties, Charter breaches and other alleged wrongdoing occasioned during the course of criminal prosecution brought against Ms. Sydel, the applicant, in B.C. Provincial Court pursuant to the Income Tax Act by agents of the Government of Canada. In this case, Ms. Sydel claimed at the B.C. Supreme Court that the investigation leading up to her convictions and the proceedings before the Provincial Court were part of a conspiracy against her engaged in by employees of the Canada Revenue Agency, lawyers employed by the Federal Department of Justice, and the Provincial respondents.