Question: In June 2014 with the investigation of Ashu’s complaints against me to the Green Party of Canada about to commence, could I not have just given out the password, instead of taking the password off?
There are two facets to the answer. Both say “No.”:
- By my observation of Ashu’s interactions with other people he is fuelled by conflict and engagement.
My strategy for dealing with him from day 1 in early December 2013 is to do my job, but never engage with him in any way.
My job was to forward the complaint against him to the Federal Office of the GPC for 3rd party, independent, arms’ length resolution by the Ethics Committee. I did that.
Since I forwarded the complaint, as I would have done with any such complaint, Ashu has never received any kind of communication from me, with the exception of when he appeared at the Saskatoon Airport at 6:00AM when my daughter and I were standing in line to board a flight. I responded verbally to his verbal attacks on me. A westJet attendant stepped in and started to call Security at which time Ashu hastily left the terminal. That is the only time I have communicated with him; my replies were honest, non-aggressive and bewildered.
I have never varied from the strategy to refuse to engage. The soundness of that approach was reinforced by the Parksville RCMP when I was questioned by them.
I was not about to send an email to Ashu with the password; that would have invited a renewed onslaught directly at me. It was bad enough what he was doing to others; I did not need more to deal with.
IN ADDITION to this,
2. The question “Could I not have just provided the password, instead of removing it?” makes pre-suppositions that are not valid.
The most significant pre-supposition is that removal of the password would actually put Ashu’s safety or that of his family at risk.
I invite you to look on my blog and find the postings related to Ashu. They are buried in the back rooms of my blog, very difficult to find. (Categories X1A and X1B).
Ashu claims that anyone doing a search on his name would find them. The information that would allegedly place him and his family at risk is related to his name changes.
People who are under attack by Ashu have the same question: “Who is this guy?”. They do an internet search on his name. Everyone I know who has done a search on Ashu’s name before and after me has come upon information published by Vital Statistics of Saskatchewan: Ashu changed his name twice in the period around 1999. His original surname is Gupta.
Ashu makes it known that his father is a professor of engineering at the U of S; if Ashu did not himself tell you, people would search “Ashu Solo plus Gupta”. They will find the same information on the U of S website, as I did. They would find the family information on the University of Saskatchewan website long before they’d find it in the back rooms of my blog .