The Question

August 18, 2007
for Susan Clairmont
The Hamilton Spectator

This Government of Ontario Website is as low as it gets

He found the filth thanks to a Google search.

A long time ago, in the wake of heavy media coverage of his cousin Jared's murder
in Brantford and the passing of a law named after him, Alex Chmura clicked his
mouse a few times. He was grieving the horror of watching police kill his uncle,
Andrew Osidacz, right in front of him. Trying to move his life forward, playing with his
friends on the school computers.

So anticipating a website he could share with his friends he entered ["alex chmura"
canada].

Alex's internet presence was not wide. A piano award. Mention on a school swim
team. Anything a valedictorian with honors standing and perfect attendance might
expect. His friends, the same.

But the Google search turned up a reference about something else.

Alex clicked and found himself staring at his poor grieving aunt's XXX diatribe about
his uncle, Jared's father Andrew. Alex was overwhelmed.

Alex's aunt Julie Craven was saying this stuff very publicly at Queen's Park.

We all know there is bad stuff, unsavory stuff on the Internet. Racism. Porn. Violence.
Hatred. Some of it is policed. Sort of. Most of it isn't. Some of it is illegal. Some of it
is just vile. Anyone can say anything. The rules of libel and slander and defamation
that apply to mainstream media carry little weight on the net.

This government website is as low as it gets. Just try a search on [bestiality "i love
you uncle"] and you will see its neighbors in the results are almost as bad.

Now, I certainly understand that the Craven family has suffered one loss. That their
son, grandson, nephew whatever was murdered. But this Government of Ontario
website -- called Hansard -- doesn't limit itself to the business of government. It
attempts to put to rest what a future inquest is supposed to do. Argues it was
Andrew's family's fault. Says -- in obscene detail -- that they are responsible.
Suggests in one place that Alex's uncle had sex with both animals and his
grandmother and by the way, she is also a witch, head of the cult family.

And in many submissions apparently scripted by Burlington MPP Cameron
Jackson, and refined by Brant MPP Dave Levac, that Alex -- yes, 14-year-old Alex --
is guilty of criminal negligence.

Much of the true-as-the-Magna-Carta site -- to any high-school student who
accesses it -- vilifies Alex and his family. Devastated, mourning, Alex. Who was
clear across town when his cousin was butchered. Who nearly died himself when
police shot his uncle dead. Who ended that night in March 2006 with the police
telling him he was a liar. Who, while carrying the coffin at Andrew's solemn funeral
ceremony, was cursed violently and obscenely by Sean Craven. Alex and the family
were banned from even a visitation of his cousin, Jared, buried the day before.

"Julie Craven: Very public victim of everyone and everything?" Let's be really clear.

Jared was a victim of crime.

Julie was also a victim of crime and a devastated grieving mother. She also has
been a long-time victim of mental illness, a condition that she kept secret from
Andrew when she denied it upon direct questioning during preparation for the
Ukrainian Catholic Right of Marriage in 1996.

Andrew Osidacz -- regardless of what spin anybody tries to put on his productive life
and caring family -- was not a monster. And no amount of parliamentary privilege
and computer power or creative writing or wishful thinking is going to change that.

By coincidence, around the time Julie phoned The Spectator, sobbing, to tell them
about Andrew's website, she laid false stalking charges against Alex's surviving
uncle.

Will it ever stop?

This site exists in part to counter the publicity this case has received. It must remain
here to show the true story for as long as these vile government transcripts can be
accessed.

Perhaps Cam Jackson and Dave Levac should have done their homework.

None of the Hansard testimony was solicited from or corroborated with Andrew's
family. I have written many non-public letters to officials about Alex and the
disgusting Hansard transcripts. Covered my children's pain. Lobbied for adherence
to the government's own code of conduct. Listened, from half a world away, to
myriad voice mails and stories about the Cravens suing and harassing our family
still a year and a half after Andrew was executed for whatever reasons. Tried to
shame Dalton McGuinty into changing his mind after he ignored his copies of my
letters to the Attorney General. Countless hours discussing with my sons and
daughter that we don't have the option of walking away from this as we would prefer.
The Hansard will not go away. The Cravens will not leave us alone because they are
emboldened and immunized by the Government of Ontario as victims. And when we
dispute this injustice we are ignored, gagged or worse.

So, sorry Cam, Dave, Dalton and every sitting bully bystander MPP. I am not
impressed with your government website. Or your bitter rewriting of the truth. Or your
mudslinging. Or your ridiculous, offensive and shameful attack on my grieving son.
Or, by extension, your heartless mockery of all children.

You are pathetic, Cam.