Most Canadians think of a Chief Justice as the ultimate moral figure in the justice system, a defender of human rights and the integrity of the constitution. This, however, does not describe Quebec's Chief Justice, Anne-Marie Paquette, who has been linked to profound abuse of power involving shocking breaches of ethics and a conspiracy to undermine the human rights outlined in both the Quebec Charter and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

 

Chief Justice Anne Paquette apparently didn't like that Mr. Samuels, a black man and self-represented litigant, was succeeding in his case against white francophone lawyers representing the Gatineau Police. The CDPDJ had endorsed a $44,000 claim in support of Mr. Samuels against human rights abuses involving racial profiling.

 

Operatives of the Chief Justice, in collusion with the Gatineau Police, put pressure on the Hon. Justice Azimuddin Hussain to retaliate against Mr. Samuels' claim by declaring him to be a "vexatious litigant" in order to strip away his civil rights as guaranteed by Section 24(1) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Justice Hussain bravely refused, instead closing the file on April 2, 2025 after the Quebec Court of Appeal refused to declare Mr. Samuels to be a vexatious litigant in March 2025.

 

This didn’t stop the Chief Justice though, who then illegally re-opened the file so that the Gatineau Police could once again attempt to get Mr. Samuels declared a vexatious litigant in the Quebec Superior Court.

 

This was quite illegal because under Section 37.1 of the Quebec Charter, once the accused is acquitted, an immediate re-trial cannot be opened. Nevertheless, the Chief Justice had The Hon. Anne-France Gagnon illegally re-open the file in order to avoid the Gatineau Police having to appeal the Quebec Court of Appeal's decision to the Supreme Court. Anne-France Gagnon is related to Nicolas Gagnon, who is a police defendant.

 

Mr. Samuels complained about this conflict-of-interest to the Canadian Judicial Council after Chief Justice Paquette's Office refused to do anything about the matter. All of this constituted a violation of Mr. Samuels’ rights pursuant to Canadian Judicial Council guidelines as a self-represented litigant and a human rights victim. Mr. Samuels sent a corresponding complaint to the Canadian Judicial Council about the activities of the Chief Justice, whose office assigned The Hon. Justice Brian Urbas to declare Mr. Samuels to be vexatious on February 24, 2026. After Justice Urbas met Mr. Samuels during the proceeding, he chose not to declare him to be vexatious either.

 

Still, the Chief Justice sought yet another vexatious litigant proceeding scheduled for May 27, 2026.

 

Through The Hon. Justice Catherine Piché, the Chief Justice found a judge who was very enthusiastic about not only declaring Mr. Samuels to be vexatious in an illegal proceeding, but also subjected Mr. Samuels to both public ridicule and corresponding unlawful court directions which Raymond Samuels will explore in his upcoming book You're Just a Nigger. This book is an indictment on racism and corruption in the Quebec Justice system under Judge Paquette.

 

Chief Justice Marie-Anne Paquette was appointed as the Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Quebec on June 2, 2022 and officially announced as such by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on June 6, 2022. Paquette reflects the most sociopathic tendencies of the former Justin Trudeau government, including racism and a disdain for human rights and the rule of law.

 

Paquette can be described as the legal incarnate of Trudeau's "blackface" and Judge Piché's declaration was in sync with the apparent racism of Quebec's Chief Justice.

 

Piché not only illegally cancelled Mr. Samuels’ $44,000 claim endorsed by a Quebec government agency, but declared that Mr. Samuels was only "pretending" to have a diploma. It seems that according to Piché and Paquette, black people like Mr. Samuels, can't have diplomas. Paquette seems willing to encourage consenting judges to embellish Chief Justice activities with outright lies in order to improperly support police retaliation against a human rights claim.

 

Piché forbade Mr. Samuels from filing any more complaints about human rights abuses or any matter of any kind at the CDPDJ (Quebec’s human rights commission) or in Quebec Courts without getting Paquette's permission. This is completely illegal under the Quebec Charter. In addition, Piché forbade Mr. Samuels from even complaining about her and Paquette's ethics violations without getting Paquette's permission to complain about her or Paquette.

 

Mathieu Daponte, the Gatineau Police lawyer, encouraged Piché to do whatever he wanted her to do because no one was going to find out, in his estimation. Daponte had Paquette's judge declare that it was "not nice" for Mr. Samuels to "accuse" the police of racism. When Mr. Samuels told Judge Piché that Judge Urbas took an entirely different approach to the proceedings, Piché accused Mr. Samuels of being a "narcissist." Piché then attacked Mr. Samuels for opposing "Bill 96" and for supporting anglophone, ethnic, and other minority rights, which Piché stipulated on behalf of Paquette was "wasting court resources" and police money.

 

It was clear from Piché's decision that she declared Mr. Samuels to be vexatious as part of an unlawful corrupt and racist political persecution.

 

There is little doubt that when Mr. Samuels makes his appeal, Paquette will seek to hand pick another judge at the Quebec Court of Appeal who reflects her corrupt and racist vendetta. 

 

Justice would best be served if Paquette resigns. Her activities are clearly not in line with her role as Chief Justice. There are obviously better qualified judges for the role of Chief Justice; that includes Justice Hussain, who singularly proved himself a judge of integrity whom Quebecois and Canadians can expect to defend their human rights and our legal ideals as a society. 

 

It is apparent that Chief Justice Paquette is using her authority to deprive Mr. Samuels of civil rights. In the process of her improper abuse of power on behalf of police authority, she now threatens to completely undermine the ability of human rights victims to seek judicial review for police abuse and other experiences of discrimination. 

 

Paquette needs to resign just like her former boss, Justin Trudeau. The quicker she does, the quicker that human rights and the rule of law can be restored to Quebec's courts.