Saint-Sauveur,
October 28th, 2014
The
Right Honourable Stephen Harper, Prime Minister,
Langevin
Block,80 Wellington Street,
Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0A2
Re. Request for Wilbert Coffin's pardon
Dear Prime Minister,
Your Correspondence Officer Executive replied
to the letter I sent you on July 8th, 2014. I bring to your attention that he did
not understand or did not want to understand my request to you for Wilbert
Coffin’s pardon.
You
are the only one, Sir, who has the authority to exercise the royal prerogative
to that end. I pray you to grant Coffin
the same pardon you granted to Western Canadian farmers who were convicted in the
1990s of taking their grain across the border to sell in the United States.
I also received a reply from the
Ministers of Justice and Public Safety. They
told me that they are waiting for AIDWYC’s submissions. AIDWYC was engaged in
having Wilbert Coffin’s name cleared. According to my research, Wilbert
Coffin’s name may not be cleared because he was guilty of the crime for which he
was accused and condemned.
I assure you that the octogenarian that
I am becoming is only seeking justice and relief for the Coffin family and a
great number of Gaspesians and Canadians still grieving Wilbert Coffin, a
victim of the Second World War.
I hope that the next letter I will
receive will come from the Prime Minister and Commander-in-Chief and will
announce Wilbert Coffin’s pardon.
Yours truly,
Clément
Fortin, retired lawyer and writer
40, de la Marquise StreetSaint-Sauveur (Québec) J0R 1R4
