Pardons Canada Is Fraudulently Violating The Privacy Act Under The Criminal Code Of Canada Says Private Investigator, Internet

I would like to bring to your attention that many people lives are being effected by the business practices of these so called Federal Non-Profit Pardons Organizations, namely Pardons Canada in my case that did not make good on their promise to me and many others, I am to understand. To my mind they are in violation of the Privacy Act and they have violated my right to privacy by not informing me before hand that they have no direct affiliation with the Government or the Pardons Board for that matter or that you are volunteering personal information to a third party to assist you in an action you can clearly do yourself without their help. Instead.

They try to appear as an arm of the Government and they gave me two options when I had my interview. For $500.00, they would clear my criminal record in two years or for $650, they could clear my record in one year and they wanted full payment up front. Does this sound like their are any hidden fees to you? It sounded like a done deal to me and to many others who blog about them, labelling them as nothing but a fraud and a scam, so I take it I am not alone.

After they got my credit card payment of $500.00, being all I could afford, I received a phone call a few weeks later, to go and get my electronic finger prints and head shot done for $75.00 to send to the RCMP for my record check. Already I was upset with the fact they did not tell me about this hidden cost upfront, since I had little funds to cover it except to also put it on my already stressed out credit card. Pardons Canada rudely told me I should have read the fine print on my contract and that I had to pay for it.

It gets even better when they lost my prints and head shot one year later and told me I had to go and get them done again at my expense, so their went another $75.00. At the two year mark and a year later I got a letter saying I would be pardoned. Next they informed me that I had to go to the OPP office when I lived in Wasaga Beach, Ontario and get a police report at my own expense and I informed them that I did not have the funds and felt they should be paying for this out of the non profit $500.00 they lead me to believe I was paying fore in the first place. Now being another $650.00 in debt, I refused to pay anymore, so we played the waiting game to see who would fold first.

We are now close to year four and they send me another letter asking for my OPP record to close my file and so I gave in when they said this was my final cost. Even though it was only $25.00 that is besides the point and more about the principle. In the meantime I had moved to Penatanguishene, Ontario,  so I went to the OPP as instructed and I explained my situation to the officer on duty that said she hates to see people being taken for a ride, being also convinced its a scam, explained that I could have done this all myself on the internet at the same costs that I had incurred over there fee, in less than a year.

At this point I was furious and I let Pardons Canada know in no uncertain terms that they had mislead me right from the beginning. Next I get a call from them asking for the Pardons Board fee, claiming that would be another $150.00, so I asked to speak to the manager and threatened to sue for my money back that they say they guarantee and with that money I would further sue them for three years of lost wages and the fact they violated my right to privacy by not disclosing their third party involvement.

He gave in when I brought up the Privacy Act part and only then did the manager inform me that he would see what he could do and I have herd nothing more from him since thinking it was before the board and that was a year ago. So here I am, five years later still waiting and I am out $675.00, plus tax, with no pardon for  a miner criminal offence that happened twenty one years ago.

The reason I needed my criminal record removed was to be licenced in my line of work as a Security Guard and Private Investigator. For another $600.00 on my credit card, I took the approved ministry course and passed, but told them I did not want to right my ministry exam before my record was removed, since they want to know what the offence was, which defeats the purpose of having your record removed, if it is still on the ministry file forever, by divulging my criminal record during the pardons process.

I wrote them on July, 20,2012, asking about my pardon and if my file is still active but have not herd back yet. They have changed their website that will not let you get a hold of anyone personally like they did before and they have gone to a fully automated system now. I can see why with all of the people out there that feel they have been scammed, going so far as to call it out and out fraud and I totally agree. 

Even their name is misleading to my mind and also to my mind this is a crime and I think it should be herd in Ottawa, with a full investigation of their business practices, to date, to see just how many pardons they have actually had granted in the time frame they promised or even at all. I believe most just dry up and go away when they realize they have been taken and they will never see their money again and that is not fair.

In five years I have yet to meet anyone that ever got their pardon and the countless blogs continue to prove it. I think it is high time to put an end to this unfair business practice that ruins others lives in the process that has personally left me bankrupt. They should be stopped from further hurting the lively hood of others, with their deceptive lies, hidden fees and false promises.