This blog is dedicated to helping the citizens of
British Columbia resist the rapacious and predatory methods of the
British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (BCIMC) that has been accused of using devious methods to plunder a small
family business in order to benefit public service pension plans.
We have been asked to investigate the case of
Pacific Rim Resort and, based on our research, we are of the opinion that
BCIMC used its power and influence to cheat the owners out of a very valuable piece of property located next door to
Pacific Rim National Park at reduced distress sale prices.
According to owner Jack English, their property was violently attacked for 3 years as part of a terrorist campaign to force them off the land.
We will tell you the facts and you can be the judge.
In 2008 Pacific Rim Resort
Campground, owned by the English Family since 1984 was undergoing a change from
nightly camping to long term RV Pad Leasing. Over 300 families indicated
interest in purchasing Leases from the English Family and the future looked
bright.
However, the Resort had a Lender who appears to have decided otherwise.
Mission Creek Mortgage of Kelowna, British Columbia, held the first mortgage on the property. Dealing through their brokers, Paradigm Mortgage, also of Kelowna, Mission Creek had, according to Jack English, lured the English family and their holding companies into a very high
rate mortgage of 10.5% by promising to finance the redevelopment of the property to condos
and hotels right on the beach.
Eventually, the English family realized the Mission Creek plan was not going to
happen and spoke to their many past customers and
others at the campground and found there was huge interest by families wanting
a long term lease on a recreational vehicle (RV) pad on the Resort property with its amazing beach and fantastic fishing
nearby.
According to Jack English, when Paradigm / Mission Creek learned of the new plan by the English family it refused to
honour its signed Commitment Letter and started foreclosure proceedings in 2009 without giving them even a chance to market any RV pad leases.
Paradigm’s CEO, Rae Meier, then led the English’s into thinking they would
refinance them and told them to deal with a Mortgage Broker, Rick Dowding in
Kelowna, but they had no intention of refinancing them and it was discovered that the Mortgage Broker was under BC Government suspension for
unethical practices.
Click here to read suspension decision against Rick Dowding
Then, in 2010, while fighting a hugely expensive legal battle with Paradigm, the English family decided to try and find a big company to come in and lease half their property so they could
pay out Paradigm / Mission Creek and allow them to continue with their leasing program with all
the great families they had dealt with over the three decades they had been in
the RC camping business.
They also secured a Dealership for Vancouver Island
for Hyline Trailers which are amazing, fully furnished, bumper pull, chemical
free trailers built by Amish craftsmen that are like a condo on wheels.
The
English’s sales motto was “Live the Rich Man’s Dream for a Working Man’s
Price!” and “Grab Your Slice of Paradise!”
They attended major RV Shows and
were the best attended booth at the shows.
So, in 2010, the English Family made contact with CBRE Real Estate’s RV Division and were put in touch with CBRE’s Vice
President, Michael Nissley, from Atlanta, Georgia.
Mr. English told Mr. Nissley
that they did not want to sell their Resort as it had been in the Family for 30
years and was his children’s inheritance and their home, but that they would
happily lease part of it to a qualified and reputable resort operator for as
long a term as they needed to make it profitable for them.
Nissley promised the
English’s he would lease the upper half of their campground for enough to
payout the debt to Paradigm and allow the English’s to go ahead with their
RV Pad leasing program on the other half of their campground.
He agreed top be their real estate agent.
Nissley said he had connections with a major company that had access to
unlimited funding.
He also said he had ways of getting the Municipality and the
Government to do what he wanted them to and Mr. English thought that this was
very disturbing as Mr. Nissley was very confident and laughed about it.
Mr.
Nissley said he was going to arrange a meeting with a person who was going
to lease the upper campsites. The person's name was Doug Pearce of Victoria.
Mr. English
had no idea who Doug Pearce was, but said that was fine: he would meet with him. But
every time a meeting was arranged, Mr. Nissley would cancel it for some reason
or another and say he was setting up another meeting.
These delays went on for
over a year and a half.
During this time, the Resort started being hit with
multiple arson attacks (three on one night in 2010) and another in broad
daylight - this March), and the Resort water system was mysteriously demolished (September
2010), and 7 foot high chain link gates knocked to the ground, and washrooms
and shop doors smashed down and vandalized in the night by persons wielding
axes or hatchets. It was a terror campaign such as the English Family had only
seen in movies or in war documentaries.
The above photo on the right is an actual photo of one of those arson attacks.
Pacific Rim Resort was hit
with an ongoing wave of attacks that wiped out virtually all of the Resort’s
infrastructure and made it impossible to operate the campground.
During this
time, Mr. English and his two young children, Kim and Dylan, were forced to live
in a dilapidated one room shack with no running water and a five gallon pail as
a toilet for almost two years as the Resort insurance company refused to offer
them coverage so they had to make formal complaints and sue the insurance
company as well.
But the English Family refused to be run off their property
and their home by criminals.
Then, next, after all this damage
occurred, Mr. Nissley changed his tune and said that Mr. Pearce now would only
buy the English’s property and not lease it.
Then, finally, Mr. Nissley let the
English’s know that Mr. Pearce’s company was having its wholly owned
subsidiary, Parkbridge Lifestyle Communities Inc. (Parkbridge), make an application to the Court to buy the Resort from
the lender Mission / Paradigm for the amount of the debt which had escalated
during the time the English’s were under attack and foreclosure.
This sale would leave the English Family homeless and penniless with no business
and their property of 30 years taken from them by force and by deceit.
Mr. Doug Pearce is the CEO
of the British Columbia Investment Management Corporation in Victoria BC which
manages the Pension Funds of the BC Government Employees, including the BC
Court Staff who were handling the English’s Foreclosure Court Case in the
courts, the Teachers, who (wonderful people) are teaching the English’s
Children at Ucluelet Elementary and Secondary Schools in Ucleulet, B.C., and
the Municipal Employees of the District of Tofino who, illegally and
unbelievably, continually denied the English’s their Business Licence to run
their campground that they have owned for 30 years and then, when Mr. English
said that he would open the campground, anyhow,and they could take him to Court
for doing what he was legally entitled to do, Tofino blocked off the Resort’s
sewer connection illegally to put the Resort out of business.
Why, you might
ask?
Simple, according to Mr. English, Tofino Municipal Employees have their Pension funds invested with
Doug Peace and BCIMC and the English’s believe that, most likely, Tricia Dixon, Braden Smith (Business
Licence) and Bob Shantz (Sewer blockage) were working with Doug Pearce and
Michael Nissley of Parkbridge/BCIMC and the Resort’s Lenders, Paradigm, in a conspiracy to
perpetrate a massive deception upon the foreclosure Court to take the English’s
Resort away from them by devious methods including the use of criminal attacks on their property and by
influencing government officials to put the English Family out of
business.
The English’s firmly believe that BCIMC/Parkbridge
have illegally influenced Tofino Municipal employees to put their 30 year
business into insolvency by abuse of their lawful authority as public
officials.
This is what Mr. Nissley was
so ominously mentioning to Mr. English in 2010 when they first met.
Tofino’s
Town Administrator, Braden Smith, and Tofino Mayor Perry Schmunk, who both
announced their resignations and promotions to higher paying jobs in December
2012.
Was this arranged for them as their reward for services rendered?
Mr. English accuses them of participating in unlawful actions against the Pacific Rim Resort property in an obvious
effort to massively reduce the value of the Resort Property.
The English Family
firmly believes that they did this to allow BCIMC to take the English’s
property in an essentially rigged Court Sale with improper appraisals made
possible by an illegal Tofino Bylaw written by Braden Smith (which Jack English was told Smith and the
mayor called “The Get Jack Bylaw” referring to Mr. English).
This Bylaw 1164 imposed
huge unprecedented retroactive Development Cost Charges -DCC- charges against the Resort to attempt to
massively reduce its value and make it so the English’s couldn’t open for
business or get refinancing, thus allowing Parkbridge/BCIMC to force the
English’s out and buy their land for less than one quarter of its value.
Ironically and unbelievably, this
is the hard earned pension funds of the Teacher’s of BC that are being used for
criminal purposes to wipe out the business of a local family whose children are
being schooled by the same teachers whose money is being misused like this
without the Teacher’s knowledge or consent that this is being done.
If Jack English is right then the British Columbia Public Service Pension Fund is out of control and is a threat to all private enterprise entrepreneurs in the province.
