Merchant Law Group LLP

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Table of Contents

AREAS OF PRACTICE 3
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WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT
5
PRESS & RECOGNITION 7
8
AGRICULTURE LAW 11

BUSINESS & FINANCE 13
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BUSINESS / CORPORATE / COMMERCIAL LAW 17
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CIVIL LITIGATION 20

CONSTRUCTION LAW 21
22
CREDITORS’ RIGHTS 23
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CRIMINAL ALLEGATIONS DEFENCE 47

CROP INSURANCE

DISPUTE RESOLUTION

DRUG CHARGES DEFENDED

FAMILY LAW

DEMOCRATS/ REPUBLICANS

CONTACT US

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AREAS OF PRACTICE 3

Agriculture Law
Business & Finance
Business / Corporate / Commercial Law
Civil Litigation
Construction Law
Creditors’ Rights, Bankruptcy and Financial
Reorganization
Criminal Allegations Defence
Crop Insurance
Dispute Resolution
Drug Charges Defended
Equipment & Asset Seizures
Family Law
General Corporate
House and Property Transfers and Mortgages
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Insurance Litigation
Employment/Labour Law
Regulatory and Administrative Laws
Marine and Admiralty Litigation
Motor Vehicle Accidents
Negligence and Product Liability
Personal Injury
Professional Discipline Hearings and Appeals

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AREAS OF PRACTICE

Professional Liability
Real Estate
Slip and Fall
Trusts & Estates
White-Collar Crime
Wills & Estate Planning
Wrongful Dismissal/Severance
Wrongful Death
Zoning and Land Use

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WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT AS
ONE OF OUR CLIENTS

Real Results Experience

While every legal matter is We're ready.
complex and a little No matter what the
opposition throws at us, no
unpredictable, Merchant Law matter what the case looks
has a track record of getting like, we've probably seen

excellent results for our something like it.
clients. This means we're in a great
position to deliver the kind
Whether it's winning a major of expert advice that helps
pay-out in a class action suit you resolve tough situations.
or managing a matter that's

a little closer to home,
Merchant Law is there.

Client Free
Centered Consultation

Lawyers who return your You shouldn't have to pay
calls. Lawyers who sit down just to explain your case to
with you to answer all your
us.
questions. You don't pay a dime until
Lawyers who work hard to
address every facet of your we agree to take it, and
we're happy to listen.
case.
You, our client, are the most During your consultation
we'll be working to discover
important thing on our
schedules today, and we what's most important to
you, what the biggest areas
treat you accordingly. of concern on, and both how

and whether we can help
you.

PRESS &
RECOGNITION

AGRICULTURE LAW

We represent clients with respect to agricultural finance, labor,
agricultural marketing, agricultural insurance, crop insurance particularly,
farming rights, land tenure and tenancy, as well as agricultural
processing.

Equipment seizures and creditor Our lawyers handle implementation
disputes frequently arise. regarding issues that may include
credit, intellectual property, and
Disputes over the forward sale of trade and commerce related to
grain often require legal advice. agricultural products.

Merchant Law Group lawyers may be
able to solve problems and may be
able to minimize how seriously the
problem will impact your farm
operation.

Spending money on lawyers when
things are bad seems like throwing
good money after bad but often the
negative impact on your farm
operation can be minimized through
careful and timely legal advice.

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BUSINESS & FINANCE

The current evolving corporate climate requires the expertise of creative,
time-sensitive legal and business strategies.
The lawyers at Merchant Law Group LLP have extensive experience
counseling on an array of Business & Finance matters, including:

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BUSINESS & FINANCE

Incorporations
Buy/sell and Partnership Agreements
Corporate amalgamations and reorganizations
Franchise Agreements
Leases Security or Corporate Finance
Commercial and Residential Real Estate Transactions
Intellectual property (trademark/trade name
registration, patents, licensing)
Debt and equity financing
Limited Partnerships
Community bond corporations
Venture capital corporations
Public offerings

BUSINESS / CORPORATE
/ COMMERCIAL LAW

The current corporate climate is complex. The lawyers at Merchant Law
Group LLP provide counsel advice for legal and business strategies.

We are experienced determined lawyers who provide legal and
business/finance strategies in a time-sensitive environment.

Merchant Law Group LLP offers efficient, cost-effective business law
services to small and large Canadian businesses. We are highly involved
in the Saskatchewan business community and have contacts at the
highest level of Canadian corporations.

BUSINESS / CORPORATE /
COMMERCIAL LAW

Merchant Law Group LLP has extensive experience counseling on an
array of matters, including:

Incorporations
Buy/sell and Partnership Agreements
Corporate amalgamations and reorganizations
Franchise Agreements
Leases
Security or Corporate Finance
Commercial and Residential Real Estate Transactions
Intellectual property (trademark/trade name
registration, patents, licensing)
Debt and equity financing
Limited Partnerships
Community bond corporations
Venture capital corporations
Public offerings
Securities
International
Real Estate
Tax
Zoning & Land Use

CIVIL LITIGATION

We represent clients in all manners of disputes before the Provincial
Courts, the Superior Courts, Courts of Appeal, the Federal Court, and the
Supreme Court of Canada.
Merchant Law Group LLP represents clients at hearings before Tribunals,
Boards, and Commissions throughout Canada and parts of the United
States.
We provide specific litigation talent, excellence in honed trial litigation
skills.
Litigation is the focus of our firm, not the addendum.

CIVIL LITIGATION

Civil Litigation is expanding in the field of legal representation. Litigation
is our business, not a branch of the Corporate/Commercial department or
an add-on to Business Law interests.

Our difference lies in welcoming the Court process to defend the edifice
and build the bulwarks that will lead to success before the Courts or an
acceptable financial settlement.

We have the technical proficiency, qualities of mind, fortitude, spirit, and
the determination necessary to solve problems.

We provide creative litigation solutions. We have extensive experience in
all facets of litigation at a time when through disuse of their skills, most
firms have few and sometimes only one lawyer in the firm with required
litigation experience in corporate, commercial, administrative, tax, and
personal law matters.

We provide our clients with the knowledge and analysis necessary to
make personal and business decisions on a conceptualized basis,
focusing on solving problems and achieving success.

We have extensive experience representing a full spectrum of clients in
diverse areas of law.

CONSTRUCTION LAW

Merchant Law Group LLP lawyers represent clients involved in the
construction industry. Representation including owners, developers,
investors, lenders, contractors, subcontractors, architects, and design
professionals. Our team recognizes the amalgamated nature of
contemporary construction projects.

To serve our clients’ needs, we provide services from the inception of the
construction project including counseling, reviewing, and negotiating
contract documents.

CONSTRUCTION LAW

We also provide advice regarding negotiation and drafting of
development and joint venture agreements, and negotiations within the
business of construction.

Our lawyers negotiate and resolve construction dispute claims utilizing
the most productive and cost-effective courses such as mediation,
arbitration or litigation.

We fully comprehend the multi-disciplinary aspects of contemporary
construction projects.

Merchant Law Group LLP has a wide range of experience within financial
matters of the construction industry such as counseling financial
institutions on matters relating to loans including drafting and
negotiating construction loan documentation and evaluating possible
loan defaults with respect to construction projects.

Moreover, Merchant Law Group LLP has extensive experience in dealing
with labour issues relating to construction projects. Our expertise
includes managing labour disputes and negotiations.

We value dynamic relationships that are established between parties.

CREDITORS’ RIGHTS,
BANKRUPTCY, AND
FINANCIAL REORGANIZATION

The highly specialized area of Bankruptcy Law requires skilled litigators with a
proficient understanding of the Canadian Legislation and Court System in
Canada.

The Canadian bankruptcy and insolvency governance is divided between the
federal and provincial levels of government in accordance with the division of
powers set out in Canada’s Constitution.

The lawyers at Merchant Law Group LLP extensively comprehend Creditors’
Rights, Bankruptcy and Financial Reorganization.

We have extensive experience and a demonstrated record of success in
assisting our clients in their efforts to reorganize with respect to the Bankruptcy
and Insolvency Act.

Merchant Law Group LLP provides legal advice such as Negotiation of out-of-
court, debt counseling to small and large corporations, partnerships,
proprietorship and individuals contemplating bankruptcy.

Specifically, lawyers at Merchant Law Group LLP, work closely with clients,
providing counseling and advice with respect to debt management, while
examining alternatives to a filing for bankruptcy.

CRIMINAL ALLEGATIONS
DEFENCE

Merchant Law Group LLP has extensive experience in the Criminal Defence
field and represent clients on a broad range of offences. Unlike many firms our
size, Merchant Law Group LLP have lawyers who practice almost exclusively in
the area of Criminal Law.

Our firm lawyers have acted as Agents for the Federal Lawyer General
conducting prosecutions under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act,
gaining valuable defence experience. As one of Canada’s best known law firms,
Merchant Law Group LLP have a well-established track record and the
experienced approach necessary to defend our clients from harsh criminal
penalties.

We have obtained positive conclusions for clients charged with criminal
offences. Our extensive legal expertise and skill enable us to provide solid,
effective legal representation. Our lawyers dominate in the field of Defensive
Law. We possess valuable defence experience.

CROP INSURANCE

Disputes with crop insurance are not uncommon. Crop insurance has an
appeal procedure where the assistance of lawyers can be helpful. There
are also litigation avenues that have to be considered.
Merchant Law Group has experience in this narrow area of farm
representation and without obligation, inquiries are invited.

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DISPUTE RESOLUTION

The lawyers in Merchant Law Group LLP’s Alternative Dispute Resolution
divisions practice work closely with our clients to assess all disputes
from their inception. We offer a full-range of resolution options, including
negotiation, litigation, arbitration, mediation and other personalized
options.

An important part of our case management strategy, enables our lawyers
to include options of legal advice to provide clients. Advised Strategies
can enable clients to resolve disputes early. Early resolutions are cost
effective and fair.

Lawyers in our practice are members of provincial Law Societies and
have served both as mediators and arbitrators and are successful at
representing clients who have several disputes arising out of
construction projects, commercial leases and diverse business related
contracts. Our seasoned lawyers have arbitrated insurance disputes
pursuant to rules of Dispute Resolution protocols.

DRUG CHARGES DEFENDED

Merchant Law Group LLP has extensive experience in the Criminal Defence
field and represents clients on a broad range of offences. Unlike many firms
our size, Merchant Law Group LLP have lawyers who practice almost
exclusively in the area of Criminal Law.
Our firm lawyers have acted as Agents for the Federal Lawyer General
conducting prosecutions under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act,
gaining valuable defence experience.
As one of Canada’s best known law firms, Merchant Law Group LLP has a
well-established track record and the experienced approach necessary to
defend our clients from harsh criminal penalties. We have obtained positive
conclusions for clients charged with drug offences. Our extensive legal
expertise, experience and skill enable us to provide the best possible
resolution. Our lawyers dominate in the field of defensive law.

FAMILY LAW

Merchant Law Group LLP’s experienced family law lawyers have represented
thousands of individuals in matters involving:

Divorce
Spousal Support
Child Custody
Child Visitation
Child Support
Adoptions; and
Dependent Adult Applications.
Our team of family law lawyers also handle child custody cases, child access
cases, child support cases, spousal support cases, and cases involving
variations of custody, access, child support, and spousal support.

FAMILY LAW

Our leading family law lawyers represent clients in Calgary, Edmonton,
Regina, Surrey, Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Winnipeg, and throughout
Canada. More specifically, and in addition to the foregoing, our legal team
has experience handling cases such as:

High-Net-Worth Divorce
Contested Divorce
Uncontested Divorce
Abandonment Divorce
Adultery Divorce
Inhuman Treatment Divorce, and
Post-divorce Disputes.

Whether you are seeking a family lawyer in Calgary, Edmonton, Regina, or
anywhere else in Canada, contact Merchant Law Group LLP for skilled,
aggressive, and effective representation. Merchant Law Group LLP and its
experienced team of family lawyers have vast experience and are well
respected by the courts. Each of our family law lawyers is skilled,
knowledgeable and experienced, and offer free consultations.

GENERAL CORPORATE

Merchant Law Group LLP provides legal services for business and finance
strategies. We are a team of engaged counsel who executes comprehensive
business plan strategies in a time-sensitive environment with the highest
degree of efficiency and integrity.

We have a diverse client base, including the private and public sectors.We
are recognized as eminent by our clients, competitors, judges, and its
members. Our hallmarks are innovation, teamwork, and our ability to
anticipate and effectively respond to change, to act proactively, and to create
opportunities.

Success. Integrity. Business Relationships.

We are determined counsel who engages to meet above and beyond the
expectations of our clients and are highly involved in the Saskatchewan
business community and have contacts at the highest level of Canadian
corporations. Our legal team provides cost-effective corporate legal services
to small and large Canadian businesses.

HOUSE AND PROPERTY
TRANSFERS AND MORTGAGES

Merchant Law Group LLP represents clients regarding the purchase and sale
of the property, real estate development transactions, construction loans,
leasing agreements and resolution of title issues.
We communicate with financial institutions when obtaining mortgage
financing, and interact with municipal and provincial authorities involved in
the transfer of the real estate. We have highly respected lawyers in the field
of Commercial Real Estate who assist clients with commercial Real Estate
transactions.
We advise clients in this increasingly complex and wide-ranging area of law.
Developers, manufacturers, lenders, builders, and owners and tenants of
commercial and industrial properties, apartment buildings and condominium
projects are among those we represent.

PROFESSIONAL DISCIPLINE
HEARINGS AND APPEALS

Most associations that govern a profession utilize a disciplinary hearing for
reviewing the conduct of its members and determine the consequences.
There is often more than one individual who hears the specific complaint. A
Hearing Panel will determine the decision with respect to the consequences
of the particular complaint.Merchant Law Group LLP lawyers fully
comprehend the pressures to be considered when allegations of
professional misconduct occur.

We have dedicated lawyers.
We are seasoned litigators
We are dedicated to our clients.
We take into account any risks to our client’s
credibility when defending our clients with respect to
allegations of negligence or wrongdoing.

REGULATORY AND
ADMINISTRATIVE LAWS

Proceedings with respect to Governmental and regulatory entities
necessitates precise actions and thorough comprehension of the law.
Lawyers at Merchant Law Group LLP routinely handle a full range of
complex, multi-faceted issues, which include Regulatory and Administrative
Law. We have been engaged in a variety of public utility issues.
The growing and rapidly changing field of gaming law provide the structure
for our representation to ensure the interests of our clients are protected and
that they are providing services within the strict confines of a highly
regulated field.

CURRENT CLASS ACTIONS

Accutane Class Action
Actos National Class Action
Administrative Segregation – Federal Prisons Class
Action
Administrative Segregation – Provincial Jails Class
Action
Aeroplan National Class Action/Recours Collectif
Aeroplan
Agent Orange / Agent Purple Class Action
Air Miles National Class Action
Alesse 21 And Alesse 28 Birth Control Class Action
Alysena Birth Control Class Action
Aphria Class Action
Allerject Class Action
Apple Iphone 6 / 6 Plus (“Touch Disease”) Class Action
Atomic Veterans National Class Action
Avodart Class Action
B.C. Automatic Roadside Prohibition Class Action
Baggage Fees Class Action
Barrick Pascua-Lama Class Action
Bernzomatic Gas Torch Defect Class Action
Blackberry Class Action
Business Interruption Insurance Class Action
Bread Price Fixing Class Action
Brazilian Blowout National Class Action

Car Rental Vehicle Fees
Celexa Pregnancy Class Action
Cellular Class Action
Chalk River National Class Action
Chemical Veterans’ Class Action
Chevy Cruze Coolant Class Action
Chrysler Ignition Class Action
Crocs Class Action
Depuy Hip Implant Class Action
Destination Marketing Fee Class Action
Dodge Chrysler Tire Sensor Defect Class Action
Elections Ontario Class Action
Eliquis Class Action
Epipen / Epipen Jr. Recall Canada Class Action
Essure Permanent Birth Control Class Action
Ethicon Physiomesh Class Action
Facebook Data Breach Class Action
Fentanyl National Class Action
Fiat Chrysler Diesel Emissions Class Action
Fiat Chrysler Recall Class Actions
Fixodent/Poligrip Denture Adhesive Class Action
Food Supplements Class Action
Forced Adoption Class Action
Ford 1.6l Coolant System Failure Class Action
Ford Gm Cp4 Diesel Fuel Pump Class Action
Ford Spark Plugs Class Action
Ford Sudden Acceleration
Foster Care Class Action
Gear Shifter – Jeep Chrysler Dodge Maserati Class Action

GLGI CRA (Canada Revenue Agency) Litigation
GM Ignition Class Action
GM Power Steering Class Action
GM Saturn Class Action
Goldcorp Class Action
Hyundai Class Action
Indian Residential Schools Class Action
Indian Status Class Action
Inferior Vena Cava IVC Filter Class Action
Input Capital Class Action
Invokana Class Action
iPhone Slowdown Class Action – Apple iPhone Class
Action 2018
Kingsclear Abuse Class Action
Leon’s Mfg. Manure Spreaders Class Action
Levaquin/Cipro/Avelox Class Action
Manulife Financial Class Action
Mercedes-Benz HVAC Class Action
Meridia National Class Action
Metis Residential Schools Class Action
Military Sexual Harassment Class Action
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Class Action
Mutual Fund Timing Class Action
Navistar Maxxforce Class Action
Nexium / Prevacid / Losec Kidney Class Action – PPIs
(Proton Pump Inhibitor Medication)
Nissan Continuously Variable Transmissions Class
Action (“Nissan CVTs”)
Nissan Timing System Class Action

Ottawa Endoscope Class Action
Ovarian Cancer Baby Powder Class Action
OxyContin Class Action
Paxil Pregnancy Class Action
Pradaxa Class Action
Pramipexole Dihydrochloride (Generic Mirapex) Class
Action
Premarin/Premplus Class Action
Prexige Class Action
Prime West Shareholders Class Action
Propecia & Proscar Class Action
Public Mobile/TELUS Class Action
Radiologist Class Action
Resolve National Class Action
Risperdal / Invega Class Action
Saskatchewan Foster Care Class Action
Saskatchewan Training School Class Action
School Fees Class Action
Scratch ‘n’ Win Class Action
Sixties Scoop Class Action
Storkcraft Baby Cribs National Class Action
Stryker Trident Hip Implant Class Action
Sundre Oil Spill Class Action
Surgical Assistants Class Action
Takata Airbag Class Action
Thunder Bay Flooding Class Action
Ticketmaster Class Action
Tobacco Class Action
Topomax Class Action
Transvaginal Mesh Claims

Ukraine Airlines Flight 752 Class Action
Valsartan Class Action
Veterinary Class Action
Vétérans des Forces canadiennes
Volkswagen Timing Chain Class Action
Xarelto Class Action / Recours Collectif Xarelto
(Bayer)
Yaz & Yasmin National Class Action
Zimmer Knee Replacement Class Action
911 Fees Class Action

PUBLICATIONS

NATIONAL EQUIFAX DATA
BREACH CLASS ACTION
COMMENCED

“The Equifax data breach is the largest and most serious in North American
history,” said Tony Merchant upon the launching of a national class action
regarding the Equifax data loss. “Equifax, entrusted with a wide array of
financial information regarding Canadians, Americans, and others throughout
the world, has jeopardized the financial safety of Canadians.”

If you wish to join our E-bulletin contact list for this class action, please visit
our class action page by clicking this link https://merchantlaw.com/class-
actions/equifax

A copy of the issued Statement of Claim is attached. Note particularly
paragraphs 10, 15, 16, and 32.

“Equifax claims to have offered free credit monitoring services for a year, at
least to US customers but a part of the terms of service for that offered free
year of credit protection involves a waiver of rights to participate in any class
action law suits,” said Mr. Merchant.

“Whether such a waiver would prove to be effective (give that TrusteeID is not
Equifax) is questionable, but potential class members should think twice before
signing up under this “deal”. There are legal arguments that indicate such a
ruse by Equifax will not succeed but class members should nonetheless
exercise care.”

“I stress,” Tony Merchant emphasized, “the importance of the impact is that all
of the information about people has been aggregated in one place. Data loss of
multiple identifiers of individuals is profoundly more significant than the single
loss of a credit card number, the single loss of a social insurance number, the
loss of mortgage information, the loss individually of pieces of financial
information.” Merchant Law today issued legal proceedings in Saskatchewan
and on Monday will be issuing legal proceedings in Quebec, in Ontario, and
perhaps in other jurisdictions.

All Canadians, businesses, and individuals, who are interested in information
and being made aware of the progress of the ongoing class action, should
provide their contact information through the website.

YOUR BLOOD ALCOHOL
LIMIT

Your Blood Alcohol Limit

In most provinces, criminal charges result if you are drinking and driving while
over .08. In many provinces, there are other sanctions even if you are below .08.
Estimating your blood alcohol level is not easy.

Your blood alcohol level depends on your weight, the duration of drinking, the
amount that you drank, your level of hydration, and is also impacted by whether
you drank on an empty or full stomach.

Weight

Your blood alcohol level depends upon your body weight because for every
pound over your ideal weight, you carry an additional mile of capillaries. This
creates an additional amount of blood to dilute the alcohol. The average heart
circulates all of your blood throughout your body every minute.

Hydration

Water in your system, just like blood in your system, impacts your blood alcohol
level. An ounce of alcohol in a liter of blood means a lower blood alcohol level
than an ounce of alcohol in two liters of blood. You also have water in your
system.

Stomach Contents

Drinking on a full or empty stomach affects your blood alcohol level. You know
this from personal experience. You get a more significant hit from a drink when
you have not been eating than when you have been eating. This is caused by
two affects.

First, alcohol primarily enters your blood through the lower intestine. If your
stomach is filled with food the alcohol does not quickly get to the lower
intestine. If your stomach has no food, the alcohol, a liquid, will go quickly
through your stomach and start to be processed by your lower intestine.
Second, the stomach processes alcohol.

When the stomach processes the alcohol it does not affect your blood alcohol
level. Think of the alcohol being burned by the digestive juices in the stomach.
Cumulatively, these two effects are, that if the alcohol is delayed in getting to
the lower intestine and burned by the digestive juices in your stomach, drinking
on a full stomach will result in a lower blood alcohol level than drinking on an
empty stomach.

Indeed, in some tests the blood alcohol level is double in the test subjects
drinking on an empty stomach as opposed to drinking on a full stomach. Your
liver will dissipate about one ounce of alcohol per hour but the lining of the
stomach has an enzyme by which it will dissipate alcohol and assist the liver.
Drinking on a full stomach not only slows the impact of the alcohol but your
stomach will process and dissipate alcohol even before it gets into your blood
and before your liver has to bat clean up.

Duration

Your blood alcohol level depends upon the duration of your drinking because
your body processes the alcohol as it is ingested. The alcohol is almost fully
absorbed and reaches its peak level in your blood and the impact upon you,
about 45 minutes after consumption of drinking on an empty stomach. Drinking
a lot of alcohol slowly may make you feel as though you are not very high and
make you feel as though you are not over .08 but you may be.

Age and Ethnicity do not matter!

16 years old, 66 years old, fat, skinny, Nordic, First Nations, lumberjack,
candlestick maker, none of these things matter.

Sex Matters!

As a woman, I can drink as much as a man. Not true! It takes less alcohol for a
woman to become intoxicated because women process alcohol differently than
men. Women reach a higher blood alcohol level than men do after drinking the
same amount, even if they are the same height and weight.

Switching Among Beer, Wine, or Spirits, will affect me more

Blood alcohol concentration is what counts – not the type of alcohol you drink.
Staying on one type of alcohol or switching among them makes no difference.
A drink is a drink. You do not get drunker when you drink hard liquor for
example and people who say I stick to beer or wine are becoming just as
inebriated.

Get Energy and Sobering Up

Alcohol does not give you energy. The opposite is true. Alcohol is a depressant
and slows down the ability to think, speak, and move. Perception, coordination,
and judgment are affected before people begin to notice physical signs of
impairment. “Sober up” with a cold shower and a cup of coffee only works in
the movies. They feel clean and awake but time is the only thing that will sober
you up. Coffee or Red Bull may keep you awake but caffeine will not make you
sober.

Estimating

Almost all hard liquor sold in Canada is 80 proof, meaning it is 40% alcohol.

Beer is not so easily categorized. Most Canadian beers are between 4% and 7%
alcohol. For the following example, 6% has been used for beer.

Wines, not ice wines or fortified wines which are higher, but ordinary wines are
between 11% and 13% alcohol and 12% has been used for this example.

To equally compare a bottle of beer, 12 ounces, a glass of wine,
or a drink of spirits:

Beer – 12 ounces x 6% = .72 ounces of alcohol
Wine – 6 ounces x 12% = .72 ounces of alcohol
Spirits – 1.8 ounces x 40% = .72 ounces of alcohol

Many bars serve 1 ounce drinks, some 1.25 ounce drinks, and some, but rarely,
1.5 ounce drinks. 1.8 ounces was selected for the example so there would be a
parallel to a bottle of beer. Putting this differently, if your friend is drinking
mixed drinks and you are matching him or her by drinking a bottle of beer for
every fixed drink, probably a 1 ounce drink, you are probably consuming 80%
more alcohol than the person drinking mixed drinks or sipping shots.

The following estimates are based on a man drinking on an
empty stomach with normal hydration.

• Suppose you weigh 133 pounds.

• Suppose it is a half hour since you started to drink;

• If in total this person has consumed 1.5 ounces of spirits, or 5 ounces of
wine, or 5/6ths of a bottle of beer and it has been a half hour since consuming
the drink, he is at about 0.02633%: one drink – .03

• If in total this person has consumed 3 ounces of spirits, or 10 ounces of
wine, or about 20 ounces of beer, all within a half hour, he is at about
0.06016%: two drinks – .06

What to do practically if arrested for drinking

If you think you are close to .08, and not much over, vomiting might help. If you
were drinking on an empty stomach, the alcohol will all have passed to your
lower intestine.

If drinking on a full stomach, you might marginally impact your ascending
alcohol by clearing your stomach but this is not a very practical solution and it
is unlikely to have much impact.

Exercising furiously in your prison cell, burning the alcohol might also
marginally help. These ideas might move you from .09 to .087 (and you are
always rounded down), but really there is nothing you can do in a practical
sense if stopped by the police and taken into custody for the purpose of
demanding that you blow.

What should you legally do

Answer no questions. You are not required to answer questions. If they ask if
you were driving, refuse to answer. You may think it is obvious that you were
driving but do not answer. Ask to speak with a lawyer. Give your name and your
driver’s license but no other information. If they ask your address, do not
answer.

After hours you likely will reach a telephone answering service but impress
upon them the importance of finding a lawyer. Tony Merchant answers
telephones at 2 o’clock in the morning. So do our other lawyers. Our advice will
be not to say anything and to blow.

Blow

Do not think you can pretend to blow. Blow as they instruct. It is easier for
Merchant Law lawyers to successfully defend being over .08 than a refusal to
blow. Merchant Law successfully defends about 50% of the people we
represent who are charged with drinking and driving offences.

Alcohol and health

Your liver processes alcohol. Your liver cleanses – processes – most of the bad
we consume. You want a number under 5. Over 7.5 demonstrates danger. Get
tested for gamma-glutamyl transferase (GGT) which is rarely authorized for
testing in Canada, but you can tell your doctor to put GGT on your liver panel
test list.

Consumption levels

Availability of alcohol may affect consumption rates although variables are
many.

Quebeckers drank 144 litres of alcoholic beverages per person of drinking age
in the most recent comparable year. This was the highest of any province.
Albertans were close behind at 134 litres per adult. In 3rd, Newfoundland
Labrador came in at 132 litres. Saskatchewan rates 8th in alcohol
consumption.

And interestingly the largely urban Ontario, ranks 9th. The people of New
Brunswick consumed the least alcohol at 102 litres per person. New Brunswick,
a province like Quebec, is Francophone but curiously is 10th, and Quebec is 1st.

The Forgoing is Not Legal Advice.

The information is believed to be accurate but reliance leading to a charge of
being over .08 will neither provide a defence to the charges nor grounds to
advance a claim against Merchant Law. For specific advice, and in particular
specific advice if charged with a drinking and driving offence, call our offices
for free initial advice.

GEAR SHIFTER CLASS ACTION
LAUNCHED AGAINST JEEP,
CHRYSLER, DODGE,
MASERATI

New Canada-wide Class Action Launched in Court Today
A National class action was launched today regarding the gear shifting danger
in Jeep, Chrysler, Dodge, and Maserati vehicles.
“These auto companies knew about the defect,” commented Tony Merchant,
Q.C. said, “but deceived their customers by telling people who complained that
theirs was an isolated incident. The death of Anton Yelchin is horrible but that
publicity helped people affected all over Canada to know that what was
happening to them was not their fault.”

Merchant Law Group LLP is well known for involvement in mass tort and class
action cases in Canada, which include lawsuits involving Winners, Residential
Schools, System Access Fees, Hollinger, Maple Leaf Foods, and many other
cases on our website.

Regardless Of Whether You Were Injured Or Endangered By Your Vehicle,
Compensation Is Expected For All Affected Vehicle Owners Because Steps
Must Be Taken To Make Your Vehicle Safe!

DEMOCRATS/
REPUBLICANS

Twenty-three Democratic hopefuls are now criticizing each other in hopes of
creating a circumstance by which Donald Trump may be reelected.

It is a mild overstatement to postulate that the world would have been a better
and cleaner place if Lyndon Bains Johnson had never been born. Certainly,
anyone who can read thinks poorly of him. It may not be an impeachable
offense for a President to have a line installed from the kitchen to the Oval
Office so that he may squirt fresh Fresca into a glass but…

The foregoing truths aside, the Democratic race to reelect President Slim brings
to mind a lucid moment when Lyndon Bains commented:

The only difference between liberals and cannibals is cannibals don’t eat their
friends and family members.There are other truths to be noticed in the circular
firing squad to select someone to snatch defeat from the jaws of a Trump
defeat.

Republicans are more holy than Democrats. That is why there are more
registered Democrats. But Republicans vote.Other truths. Republicans only care
about deficits when there is a Democrat in the White House. The real truth is
that the amount the government takes out of the economy in the last 20 years
is a constant. It runs at about 18%.

In the long run, we are all dead.

The electoral college has 538 members, 435 in the House of Representatives
and 100 in the Senate, so each district gets an electoral college equivalent vote
plus District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and American Samoa1. The electoral
college is made up of these 535 plus three extras for the territories. In passing,
since Wyoming and Vermont, have one each (for their one member in the
House), but they also get two extra members of the electoral college because
of two senators, a vote in Vermont, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, Rode Island, is
more valuable than a vote in California.

Half of 538 is 269. For the election Trump’s lock on 260 is solid.

All you should do, and I would like you to tell me the polling if you can find it, is
determined what will happen in Wisconsin, 10 votes, Michigan, 16 votes, and
Pennsylvania, 20 votes. If he again wins one of those three states and winning
all three in 2016 took Trump to 306, then November 3 will be a bad day by
ethical standards and November 4 a good day for health care and
pharmaceutical stocks.

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