As a rule, I keep myself entirely out of the answers we receive from political parties and institutions. This time, I can’t help myself. The answers from the Canadian Association of Paralegals line up point for point with the reason this platform exists. Émilie Dumontet and her association have hit the mark — their proposals aren’t merely good suggestions, they are the solution.
Dismissed in its entirety against the Attorney General, maintained in part against the Barreau du Québec: a judgment rendered in Québec City on 8 July 2026 lets three sets of facts survive — and sets a deadline for the constitutionality of the mechanism used to strike the rest to be put before the Court.
Declaring oneself in favour of the police is not the same thing as supporting the police unconditionally, no matter how serious its failures. Alain Babineau writes from three vantage points that almost never converge in one person: twenty-eight years with the RCMP, several as a staff sergeant supervising operational teams, a period as a recruiter assessing candidates’ judgment before they were handed a badge and a firearm — and today, a commitment against racial profiling. From Station 39 to the Ville de Mercier stop to the officer insulted over tinted windows, he sets out a thesis that is uncomfortable on both sides.
Seven requests at the civil registry, six emails, two phone calls, more than $320 — and still no file. When he finally obtains an appointment to consult it on site, he finds 285 pages missing, centre pages pulled from a second document, and entire documents gone. He photographs it all before a witness. The DPCP acknowledges in writing that court-system participants in the district are named, and moves the file out of Joliette. Then the police cannot investigate, the prosecution service cannot charge, and the Minister of Justice does not answer.
The statement is short and comes from an experienced lawyer who says he knows the file from the inside. David Chun resigned from the Barreau du Québec while a syndic’s investigation was under way — an obligation to cooperate that the Professional Code makes explicit. No public disciplinary measure appears to have followed. On 23 December 2025, a fresh request for an investigation was refused: a decision had been rendered, upheld by the review committee, and the file was closed.
Under Quebec professional discipline law, cooperating with an investigation by the Bureau du syndic is an ethical obligation. On 5 February 2025, Me David Chun resigned from the Barreau du Québec while one was under way. No public sanction followed. The Bar’s own insurance fund then retained and paid counsel to defend the firm concerned — counsel who went on to send cease-and-desist letters to journalists covering the story. A complaint to Quebec’s financial regulator has been acknowledged, and nothing else.
He was mowing his lawn. Two hours later he was in handcuffs, facing an armoured vehicle, tactical officers and a bomb squad. No explosives were found, no arsenal. He was acquitted on every count — and his children did not come back. An autistic father living with Tourette syndrome describes a courtroom that read his neurology as instability, a legal aid lawyer who allegedly told him a person like him doesn’t deserve children, and a police station that would not write down his complaint.
What becomes of a disciplinary investigation when the lawyer under investigation resigns from the order? In the Spunt & Carin file, the answer appears to be: nothing. A civil action alleging fraud and judicial collusion, contradictory sworn statements about a central witness, cease-and-desist letters to journalists, and a report from one of Quebec’s best-known family law practitioners — and the Bureau du syndic still maintains the closure. At that point the question stops being individual.
He resigned from the Barreau du Québec on 5 February 2025, in the middle of a disciplinary investigation. Since then, two accounts of his whereabouts have been placed before two different judicial bodies. Counsel retained by the Bar’s insurance fund place him in China, which would make his testimony impossible to obtain. A paralegal at his former firm swears she saw him at a Walmart in Kirkland on 11 October 2025, photographs attached. One of these accounts is false. No body has ruled on which — and a criminal file has already closed for want of evidence.
Four people now say they were harmed by Me David Chun, formerly of the Westmount firm Spunt & Carin — the lawyer whom his own counsel placed in China. The material we have received since leads us to doubt that account. He resigned from the Barreau du Québec on 5 February 2025, while a disciplinary investigation was under way. A file is open at the Office des professions du Québec. We are looking for other witnesses, and you can come forward anonymously.