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They have been met by judicial decisions saying his arguments are “unknown in law,” his allegations are “without foundation in fact,” his constitutional challenges are “irrelevant and unmeritorious” and his claims “unintelligible.”

Of course our marriage was genuine but the ministers of Canada and B.C. are determined to keep punishing us forever,

Defeats lead to additional accusations, providing more officials to sue with rapid-fire appeals, making his caseload spread like tentacles. One judge who denied his claim was attacked in an appeal as being mentally unwell because she couldn’t see things his way.

Simon, a former B.C. resident living in Red Deer, Alta., has now been placed on a legal leash.

The Federal Court of Canada joined every level of court in British Columbia in declaring him a “vexatious litigant” and banning him from filing any more challenges, motions or any type of legal paperwork without first getting approval from a judge.

He has the expected response.

“I am working on my appeal,” Simon told the National Post, outlining his anticipated application to the Supreme Court.

“I have a long list of palpable and overriding errors against the three justices involved… I have too many good cards and the Crown never likes persons with strong cards and arguments.”

When it comes to the courts, he is both unrepresented and unrepentant. Even the mounting awards of legal costs against him haven’t deterred him.

Photo by Courtesy of Z.A. Simon

Simon’s woes started in 1999 when he married his second wife, a woman from Honduras, and sponsored her and her three children to immigrate to Canada. The couple split up soon after she arrived and she started collecting social assistance.