Evan Vokes

A book with primary documents..... soon primary videos

Shakespeare wasn’t joking. “ Kill all the lawyers.” In Chapter 23 of Broken Trust I lay out exactly why that line still cuts deep. Lawyers don’t build pipelines. They don’t weld pressure vessels. They don’t live under natural law... the one where steel fails when it fails, physics doesn’t negotiate, and a missed fusion weld doesn’t care about clever wording. They live under man’s law: sophistry, procedural theater, word games that turn violations into “interpretations.” I watched it firsthand at TransCanada. When I refused to sign off on falsified inspection reports and contractor-controlled NDE on critical welds, TCPL lawyer Joel Forrest was telling project managers they could ignore issued Court Orders for Onshore Pipeline Regulations Section 54... the court-ordered rule for independent inspection. I took it to the National Energy Board. Senior counsel Alex Ross told me to “just write the complaint any way you want.” Then the complaint disappeared. Instead of fixing the pipelines, the system came after the engineer who wouldn’t play the game. That’s not a conspiracy theory. That’s what happens when man’s law protects the bureaucracy and the corporation better than it protects public safety. Engineers live under natural law. Too many lawyers and regulators thrive under the other one. Have you seen this same pattern in your industry... where lawyers and procedure override actual engineering reality? Chapter 23 is unflinching in a profession that exists only to serve the public good. As Shakespeare pointed out, the self serving nature of lawyers must be killed, a return to public service. No punches pulled. DM me or comment if you want the link.

@DonaldBestCA @rcmpgrcpolice The RCMP appear in my book BROKEN TRUST for a reason. There are people i do not trust and the RCMP propriety is not a trust culture, it is an ideological "Uber Alles" culture.

We no longer trust the police because they have allowed themselves to be improperly influenced and directed by the political state. For instance, the Commissioner of the @rcmpgrcpolice Brenda Lucki improperly interfered with the Nova Scotia mass murder investigation to further the Liberal government’s anti-gun policies. Then in 2022, police illegally followed political orders to seize bank accounts of hundreds of political opponents of the Liberals. The courts have held the police did this illegally - ruining lives, businesses, homes and families. Also in 2022, police illegally wiretapped @OttawaPolice Detective Helen Grus and her family because Grus investigated a cluster of infant deaths possibly linked to the Covid vaccines. Again the police acting illegally to assist a political policy. So no @patrickbrownont - we no longer trust that the police will not use extended powers to please their political masters.

I recently observed a post about how complex engineering failures are investigated… six or eight disciplined engineers sitting down to evaluate what really happened. In theory, this is exactly how it should work. In practice, those rooms have a problem. I can tell you first hand, there are far too few people in those meetings who genuinely want to find the root cause. What they want is a conclusion that satisfies management, protects the schedule, and distributes accountability thinly enough that no single name carries the weight. Workarounds. Paper compliance. Plausible language that survives an auditor's checklist without disturbing the people who made the decisions that led to the room in the first place. Here is the critical distinction. Workarounds are not illegal. Engineering judgment calls, conservative interpretations, risk-based decisions…. these exist in a grey zone that reasonable professionals can debate. Hold that thought. Because Broken Trust is not a book about grey zones. It chronicles the specific, documented moment when the workaround crosses the line; when the people in that room know the physics, know the code, know the court orders, and choose the schedule anyway. That is not a judgment call. That is a crime. The book BOKEN TRUST shows this happening multiple times by corporations and regulators. The difference between an honest failure investigation and what this book documents is the difference between imperfect engineering and deliberate concealment. One is a profession working within its limits. The other is a profession being weaponized against the public it was chartered to protect. #BrokenTrust #EngineeringEthics #RootCause #PublicSafety #StatutoryDuty #ProfessionalEngineering

@AlbertaLeonidas @ABDanielleSmith she made a huge lie that affected me in october 2024, now she lies to everyone. she assumes its compromise but with no intent to follow through, its lies. she will completely cave on digital id.

@ABDanielleSmith This is incorrect There will be no pipeline There will be escalating tyranny from feds You will do nothing Terrible

I know the last decade under the Trudeau-NDP was difficult and Albertans have every right to be frustrated. But thanks to the leadership of Albertans, the tide is finally turning in our favour. The vast majority of Trudeau’s ‘9 bad laws’ have been scrapped or reformed. Investment has begun flowing back into energy, tech, and agriculture, and we are creating more jobs than the rest of the country combined. Now is not the time to give up hope. Now is the time to double down and help Canada reach its incredible potential. With Alberta leading the way, we can turn Canada into one of the most strong and prosperous economies in the world. On October 19, I will be voting for Alberta to remain in Canada. I hope you will join me in doing so.

@HanyaToderoff sending me a dm or email is the best

The book BROKEN TRUST: A Cautionary Tale is intentionally designed to place the reader directly inside the room; sitting in the chair right next to me, watching from the table and reading emails where horrible decisions were made. What are the best options for getting a copy of Broken Trust?

🔔🔨 TDS: Trump Derangement Syndrome in Canada! It’s definitely a major “Distraction from Domestic Issues”. Truth tellers in Canada - the few & far between - argue that the Canadian media and politicians spend a disproportionate amount of time & energy denigrating Donald Trump's policies, rhetoric & agendas - shifting the public focus away from very pressing domestic concerns like housing, inflation, healthcare and the quality of “Canadian governance”. The "Trump Card" in Canadian Elections - used by both federal and provincial politicians - frequently exploits Donald Trump as a political weapon. Liberal, New Democratic Party (NDP) & CPC strategists point the finger regularly at each other in an effort to link each other to some aspect of Trump style populism to confabulate voters. It’s just another “scare tactic” with the primary purpose of distracting the people from the vile bills being passed in Ottawa and from connecting the dots related to the history of political leaders over many years. Carney like Harper has a lot of practice in the art of deflection and gas lighting serves a purpose. Canadians consume a huge amounts of American media & U.S. cultural war topics - ranging from border security to judicial appointments and these topics are frequently imported directly into Canada, even when our legal, “constitutional” and social frameworks are entirely different. The intense polarization surrounding Trump has definitely crossed the border. For some Canadians, opposing Trump has become a core part of their political identity while a segment of the Canadian population want to adopt elements of the "Make America Great Again" movement - which serves the government’s goal of deepening the division within Canadian communities. When in doubt “Blame Trump” or suffer the consequences.

@RazorOil you need to be worried about DNVs involvement. That is where i am focused right now. Imaging writing a regulation that gets international implementation; develop a carbon capture business with DNV as the primary financial beneficiary. that is what is really happening

You can now listen here to my open letter to Pathways CEOs to reconsider the BS carbon capture project. As a shareholder I am NOT paying for it, as a taxpayer I am also NOT paying for it.🫡🪒

if you see my post today, what is behind that post is staggering criminal behavior by senior lawyers. lawyers with zero accountability is the crime that trickles down. They have little regard for their unfounded ideological decisions as we are seeing in BC. the hereditary chiefs have no real standing but they are placed there unjustly

Rule of Law is dead in Canada. Everywhere and in respect of every issue - politics supersedes laws.

What happens when an engineer refuses to sign off on an unlawful project? Management stops debating the physics of metallurgy. They stop arguing about code compliance. Instead, they change the battlefield. They bring in corporate legal counsel. They do this not to ensure compliance with federal safety laws, but to actively engineer a semantic workaround to escape them. Look closely at the attached email from January 2011.... a document now permanently filed inside Canada's Parliamentary Library and the official records of the Senate Standing Committee on Energy. The engineering experts are sidelined to the CC line to make a statement to the lawyer. In 2010, the company's Senior Legal Counsel was brought in by project management to verify an "interpretation" after being warned extensively not to violate court orders. Counsel was brought in not to protect public safety, but to orchestrate an administrative workaround to escape Section 54 of the Onshore Pipeline Regulations. I was never told about this workaround with real physical results until I was CC’d on this email where something had to be done. The task I was faced with: remediate a pile of welded-out pipe right after the National Energy Board started investigating because I had opened an anonymous link to expose the criminal activities TCPL was conducting in secret. I was expected to carry the indictable burden of a corrupt lawyer's actions. TCPL senior managers and lawyerswanted to redefine words like "inspection"and "fabrication"so contractors could grade their own homework when the regulations and code were plain language and unambiguous. This is the moment risk management transforms into a calculated corporate ambush. This was not a matter of legal opinion or interpretive ambiguity. Prior to this email, counsel had already been warned that this was an indictable offense. The advice counsel gave in secret subsequently violated three standing court orders. Not one. Three. The email you are looking at was written by a man who knew that, and proceeded anyway. This wasn’t legal advice the lawyer had provided in secret. It’s regulatory circumvention. His peers and the Bar appear to be completely supportive of this behaviour as no actions were ever taken. And how did the corporate hierarchy respond to this conduct? There are Codes of Business Ethics that state this is grounds for immediate dismissal. However, they didn't penalize it. They promoted it. That legal role was subsequently elevated to Associate General Counsel of Regulatory and Pipelines Law, and later named Director of Environment, Land, Regulatory & Law for massive infrastructure projects. A lawyer who willingly violates court orders in secret determines what happens on major projects and compliance. The system rewards the paper shield because it protects the corporate schedule. They want an administrative paper chase that satisfies an auditor's checklist on paper while actively failing the engineering in the field. And if the pipeline ruptures? The executives point to the legal sign-off. The liability is funneled straight down to the engineers on the ground who were bullied into signing. When corporate lawfare is used to overwrite public safety regulations, the title of "Counsel" becomes a farce. To every EIT and P.Eng. currently watching this play out in your firm: when they bring a lawyer into a technical meeting to tell you how to bypass a statutory order, they are telling you exactly who they are... and who you are. You are merely a name and an identity to be used and discarded. Your name. Your identity. The only things you have ever truly owned; gone in a single authentication. They are preparing to leave you holding the bag. Do not let them buy your name to protect their schedule. #ProfessionalEngineering #EngineeringLaw #CorporateAccountability #StatutoryDuty #BrokenTrust #PublicSafety #Whistleblower #SenateOfCanada

@FalconerAdamson @DonaldBestCA i wrote a book with facts, not opinions. it tracks similar except restitution is not realist

we are not a group place blame where due..all entities I note track beck to individuals who are personally to blame. anyone who participates is complicit..some are utterly ignorant...others are simply morally ignorant. every Canadian deserves to be free and given a one million dollar settlement, especially natives and metis, British hime children...but we all deserve to be financially compensated for the idiotic nonsense we have been subjected to by go along globalists.

"The project plans on the table are unlawful. You know this. There are court rulings that directly prohibit what is being proposed. The people in that room know it too. Your P.Eng Project Manager proceeds anyway. You keep your mouth shut." Worth your time to follow and read @EvanVokesMSc

A reply to a comment that i would support global corporatism. I do not believe we as a group can disperse blame onto nebulous, unidentifiable entities to avoid local accountability. Casting aspersions on individuals or dispersing blame on entities solves nothing. This distinction matters because my position isn't about defending the specific practices of organizations like APEGA or RBC. Rather, I acknowledge their necessary structural existence as part of our current civilization, even while I aggressively critique their operations. My book is not a purity test, but it documents many purity tests. Blaming a faceless entity prevents us from addressing the specific, actionable policies that need change. When hundreds of individuals choose short-term personal comfort over their statutory duty, the resulting failure looks like a grand, coordinated conspiracy. But it is not. The book BROKEN TRUST: A Cautionary Tale is intentionally designed to place the reader directly inside the room; sitting in the chair right next to me, watching from the table and reading emails where horrible decisions were made. The post you are replying to begins with the young engineer in the room. Not because they are the most culpable, but because they are the most salvageable. This focus sets you up to look at the individual actions that make a systemic collapse look like a grand conspiracy, when it is really just an institutionally accepted culture. And that is the culture that must change.

I do not believe we as a group can disperse blame onto nebulous, unidentifiable entities to avoid local accountability. Casting aspersions on individuals or dispersing blame on entities solves nothing. This distinction matters because my position isn't about defending the specific practices of organizations like APEGA or RBC. Rather, I acknowledge their necessary structural existence as part of our current civilization, even while I aggressively critique their operations. My book is not a purity test, but it documents many purity tests. Blaming a faceless entity prevents us from addressing the specific, actionable policies that need change. When hundreds of individuals choose short-term personal comfort over their statutory duty, the resulting failure looks like a grand, coordinated conspiracy. But it is not. The book BROKEN TRUST: A Cautionary Tale is intentionally designed to place the reader directly inside the room; sitting in the chair right next to me, watching from the table and reading emails where horrible decisions were made. The post you are replying to begins with the young engineer in the room. Not because they are the most culpable, but because they are the most salvageable. This focus sets you up to look at the individual actions that make a systemic collapse look like a grand conspiracy, when it is really just an institutionally accepted culture. And that is the culture that must change.

@EvanVokesMSc @DonaldBestCA The RBC text is the kind of nonsense that is used to make individuals adhere to group ethics over individual communion with morality. It's "management cadre" of the NWO. What do you want to be waiting for them?

Every year, professionals in regulated industries sign codes of ethics and business conduct. It is treated as administrative. A checkbox. The price of admission for another year of employment. But that is precisely the wrong way to understand what it means. The signature is not proof of character. It is a statement of intent that must be demonstrated every day afterward; in every meeting, every decision, every document that crosses your desk. Culture is not built by policy documents. It is built by what actually happens when the policy is tested. When the project is behind schedule. When the lawyer comes into the technical meeting. When the manager tells you to proceed anyway. Every time someone in that room chose the schedule over the standard, the culture learned something. Every time that choice went unremarked and unrewarded, the culture learned something else. Every time the person who said no was sidelined and the person who said yes was promoted, the culture curriculum was written. By the time the negative outcome arrived; and in engineering the negative outcome is always certain, only the timing is negotiable; the culture that produced it had been built decision by decision over years. Broken Trust is not an anti Oil & Gas book, they are essential; however, the deeds of men is another story, a larger story of culture. The price of admission is not a one time act. It is every act that follows. #BrokenTrust #EngineeringEthics #ProfessionalEngineering #StatutoryDuty #PublicSafety #CorporateAccountability

@FalconerAdamson @DonaldBestCA it is hard to understand what is in the background and how it arose which is why i explain with examples. Think of the audience of who it was directed too, they have no idea yet and what is waiting for them. I do not think the RBC letter is at all wrong

@DonaldBestCA @EvanVokesMSc That is rich, using an ethical statement by one of he most corrupt institutions in the land to steer engineers away from what? The power of the power the internet gives whistle blowers is unlimited ...it just depends on your DGAF vs hope ratio is.

@JayUnrau the problem is my story started way before covid. the book is a cautionary tale for a reason because the problem is deeper and really what people do not want to look at.

This evokes the covid panic & how most professionals just went along w/what was clearly nonsense. Six years later many cling to the illusion that crushing family businesses, locking children from parks then forcing experimental drugs on everyone were still among the best options.

@justusdenied the link was down when i posted so i did not include it.

@EvanVokesMSc The letter: apega.ca/docs/default-s…

To every Engineer in Training. Past and present. Imagine you are fresh out of school. You have taken engineering law. You know what statutory duty means and you know it is not optional. You are assigned as Project Engineer under a Professional Engineer and Project Manager. You are in meetings. The project plans on the table are unlawful. You know this. There are court rulings that directly prohibit what is being proposed. The people in that room know it too. Your P.Eng Project Manager proceeds anyway. You keep your mouth shut. Years pass. Things turn out badly.... as unlawful things tend to do. And then one day you sit down to write your Professional Practice exam. Read that again slowly. This is not a hypothetical. This is happening right now, inside firms you know, on projects you may be working on today, to people you know. Just within the last few months, a brilliant young woman not far from me walked away from a brand new engineering career rather than continue to participate in what she was being asked to do. I know two other young professionals who walked away for the exact same reason. One was assigned to an earth-filled dam where the engineering simply wasn't working, but corporate momentum pushed ahead anyway. The other was on a municipal landfill site.... They made their choices. It cost them their dreams, but not their values. And not their names. Do you own your name or do others own your name, your identity? Every individual makes choices. That is one of the central arguments of my book, Broken Trust. It does not matter what the culture of a firm is, what the local norms are, or who is telling you to proceed. The statutory duty belongs to you. In the end, your name is the only thing you ever truly own. Everything about statutory duty is riding on it. If you are struggling with where the line is; and many of you are, even if you won't say so publicly; look up the Royal Bank Letter, November/December 1990: The Soul of Professionalism. It was written for a different era but it describes exactly the crisis playing out in engineering firms today. The question it forces you to answer is the same one your Professional Practice exam will eventually ask; and the same one a court may one day ask as well: When you were in that room, and you knew, what did you do? And when the document came to you for authentication,,,, what did you do then? #ProfessionalEngineering #EngineeringEthics #StatutoryDuty #BrokenTrust #EIT #EngineeringLaw #PublicSafety

Can any constitutional lawyer explain why the federal government can't, at this very moment, call for a constitutional conference and try to bridge the gaps here in the Confederation? It's been 12,235 days since the last attempt. Apparently, the last attempt failed largely because Brian Mulroney was deeply unpopular. If Carney is polling at unprecedented levels, this should be light work for the Liberals, no?

@SaskLass June 6 2017

@SaskLass the same sort of day this happened. turbulent clouds. This was taken in Olds Alberta of a tornado in Trochu AB. if you have seen the famous mowing the lawn picture, same tornado. I have pictures of the initiation to this wide base. not my first rodeo with tornados or the last

Good News : The rain has stopped! Bad News: ⬇️

@vesperdigital The red and blue ensign have specific meaning, unlike Quebec whos laws are napoleons civil laws. inappropriate flag for AB

@RuleofLawCanada sounds like you are enjoying chapter 23. what a way to open a chapter eh

@EvanVokesMSc Here is an interesting examination of the quote, “The first thing we do is, let’s kill all the lawyers.” Dick the Butcher. Henry VI, Shakespeare lithub.com/what-did-shake…

Lawyers are speaking out. It's good to see.