The Tsuut’ina Nation, a Dene community with roughly 2,500 near Calgary, filed a lawsuit against former general counsel Terry Braun alleging negligence, breaches of contract and fiduciary duties, and other wrongdoing in connection with the construction of it’s recovery center. They allege Braun (tbraun@caravellaw.com) was working with Sam Mraiche.
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Braun directed that Tsuut’ina’s correspondence be sent to Mraiche during the project’s early stages. “Please share this e-mail with Sam.” |
| Caravel Law. 🎉 Congratulations to Terry Braun, K.C.! We are thrilled to share that Terry Braun has been appointed King’s Counsel, a distinguished recognition of his exceptional contributions to the legal profession, his integrity, and his dedication to the practice of law. |
An entity connected to Mraiche paid $49,000 to “support community initiatives” in the First Nation.
| That would be direct grease to former chief Roy Whitney. |
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Tsuut’ina says its recovery centre, being built by Melewka Homes Ltd., has been marred by issues including circumvented procurement processes, overpayments and duplicated invoices.
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On December 6, 2022, premier Danielle Smith and then health minister Jason Copping signed a deal with Turkish company Atabay Pharmaceutical for 5 million bottles of children’s acetaminophen and ibuprofen to supply to Alberta pharmacies at a cost of at least $80m.
Middleman, for unknown reasons, was Hassan Khalil Sam Mraiche. 5 million bottles is about 10 to 14 times the entire national demand for children’s pain and fever medications. Alberta committed to purchase $70m worth of meds at $14 a bottle, more than twice the retail shelf price. The other $10m evaporated in ‘internal costs’.
Alberta received 1.5m bottles of the 5m purchased. Hassan Khalil Sam Mraiche was paid in full. Of that 1.5m, only a total of 4,700 bottles made it to community pharmacies for the public and 9,000 bottles made it into hospitals. As soon as the medicine arrived, there were concerns that the comparatively lower dosage concentration of the Turkish medicine increased the risk of dosage errors. Pharmacists had to keep the medicine behind the counter.
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The acetaminophen, known under the brand name Parol, was banned in hospitals. |
The ibuprofen, known as Pedifen, was also pulled from shelves. The province sat on 1.4m bottles since the spring of 2023 after front-line health staff reported problems, including the medicine’s thicker consistency risked clogging feeding tubes and incorrect dosages for children.
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Health Minister Adriana LaGrange said Parol and Pedifen would be kept in reserve for future emergencies. |
Her bullshit was just that, the Pedifen was set to expire in November 2025 and the Parol two months after that.
Three years after Alberta’s government paid $70m for the Sam Mraiche boondoogle, the 30% actually received was either destroyed or given away. 44% of it was donated to Hassan Khalil Sam Mraiche’s favoured charity group Health Partners International of Canada, the rest incinerated.
The Province of Alberta is owed $49m (plus interest) by Hassan Khalil Sam Mraiche from the failed Turkish acetaminophen deal and that has been so for over 2 years. Nobody can possibly say where that money is today, nor if taxpayers will ever see it again.
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