In a Friday night document dump, the government relations firm Kool Topp & Guy admitted that Brian Topp, Alberta Premier Rachel Notley’s chief of staff, was not removed from the corporate registry as a partner in the firm until almost a month after he went to work in the premier's office.
A corporate filing document, sent to TheRebel.media by Topp’s business partner, Ken Boessenkool, confirms that the registration change was only done on June 5, but that the date of Topp’s effective resignation was back-dated to May 6th. You can see those two key dates in the document here:
Those legal filings were only done after The Rebel broadcast its research showing that Topp was still registered as a partner in the firm as recently as June 4th. You can see the corporate registry search done by The Rebel here:
Before broadcasting the news, The Rebel contacted Boessenkool for an explanation. He delayed his substantive answer for several hours, and in the meantime, The Rebel broadcast the following video:
At that very moment, Boessenkool was hastily filing his paperwork to remove Topp from the company. Guessing that was why Boessenkool was giving vague answers,The Rebel filed another corporate registry search, on June 5th. And sure enough, Kool Topp & Guy had immediately removed Topp as a partner, after The Rebel tipped off Boessenkool that a story was coming. Here’s the results of those filings, on June 5th:
Here is a second broadcast by The Rebel after Kool Topp & Guy’s quick change.
In a letter to The Rebel, Boessenkool claimed that his firm indeed did remove Topp last month, and that they “gave clear instructions to the lawyers which they took too long to execute”. He claims his June 5th filing “is the proof” and he asks for “the benefit of the doubt”.
Given the shifty answers Boessenkool gave all day, and his secretive attempts to change the facts before answering questions about them, it’s hard to give him the benefit of the doubt. But what is without a doubt is that Brian Topp remained listed on the Alberta corporate registry as an owner and director of an active government relations firm, nearly one month after going to work as Rachel Notley’s chief of staff.
As of Friday night, Topp himself has yet to respond to inquiries.
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Gary, I have my own vision as to how Canada should operate. You are not part of the solution. You are the roots of the problem.
And Wayne, you may be striking into a gold vein. An undisclosed under the table deal is likely going on. Topp’s involvement may not be as finished as it may seem. Problem is proving it.
Like most leftists, especially the Ontario and Quebec brethren, they talk a good game until handed the baton and told to lead the parade.
These registrations are often backdated because the corporate registry (much like Land Titles) is typically delayed by at least a week or more in actually processing registrations after they are received. You’d have to find out the date that the change in shareholders was actually received by the corporate registrar, and the date the corporate resolution was passed/signed in order to prove any wrongdoing, and even then I would guess it’s only a matter of a week or two, and possibly less.
Yea, that’s for sure, although Brian Topp is not an elected MPP. He was appointed to chief of staff by Notley, so Alberta did not specifically “gift” themselves with Brian Topp. Having said that, they did “gift” themselves with the NDP crap government.
Just like Ezra brought out the story less than 2 months ago about Preston Manning’s “manipulation” of the Wildrose defection back in December. He quoted a Toronto Globe and Mail report from then (almost 6 months later?), that, after some quick checking, was mentioned in many of the mainstream media. Further, Ezra’s “reporting” of that “story” left out a few things that the mainstream media did mention (in defense of Manning), perhaps in his zeal to tar-and-feather Manning.
Sorry, Ezra, but you’re showing your consistency as someone with a less-than-objective viewpoint, and a penchant for the spectacular. Stick to “just the facts” and leave the hype at the curb. (I think I prefer Brian Milley’s reporting…)
Maybe this is actual reporting, maybe not. Time will tell…
https://ca.linkedin.com/pub/brian-topp/12/a73/480
Ezra was quite clear in his report.
http://i.imgur.com/cn3Bqg1.png
Boessenkool confirmed on Twitter that Topp ceased being a shareholder in May. I guess there’s where the negligence comes in — if Ezra bothered to check, he would have found out. But of course then there’d be no story.
What a turd farmer.
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A bit off topic here folks, but I just checked Alexa.com – an analytics website that ranks top visited websites in Canada and our therebel.media ranked 1,135 in Canada!!!! There are literally millions of websites out there and our rebel.media, barely 100 days old is competing with “news” outlets that are 100 years old – macleans.ca, for example is ranked 921.
Keep up the great work Brian, Ezra, Marissa et al – this is my MUST VISIT website every day!
Hopefully topp gets run over by a bus/car/tank/bicyclist/herd of wild elephants very soon. You’re a socialist pig topp – rot in hell.