The plaintiffs in this case see this document (Advancing Subsidy Reform: Towards a Viable Policy Package by David Pearce and (Countess) Donata Finck von (of) Finckenstein as a conflict of interest of the Canadian government and the Federal Court in allowing Konrad Winrich Graf (Count) Finck von (of) Finckenstein becoming the Case Management Judge on October 29, 2003 after being appointed to the Federal Court on August 14, 2003. This was one of the largest proposed class actions in Canada and deals with the NISA Program, an agricultural program subsidizing farmers. One would have expected the Case Management Judge to recuse himself from a subsidy case for this reason and others. The Canadian government (also Defendant) should have been aware of this document being presented at the United Nations Department of Economics and Social Affairs Division for Sustainable Development meeting in Nairobi, Kenya, 1-4 December 1999. Therefore, by allowing Konrad Winrich Graf (Count) Finck von (of) Finckenstein to be the Case Management Judge on the case involving the reductions to the farmers’ NISA Program, they believe violates any perception of justice being done on behalf of the affected farmers.
http://www.uea.ac.uk/env/cserge/pub/wp/gec/gec_2000_12.pdf
http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/publications/nairobi_meeting.pdf
http://www.uea.ac.uk/env/cserge/pub/wp/gec/gec_2000_12.pdf
http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/publications/nairobi_meeting.pdf
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