THE DISCIPLINE FILE
commencing June 2015 and continuing thereafter on an ongoing basis to employees and representatives of APEGA; unprofessional in both tone and content to individuals and agencies, including APEGA, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Alberta Securities Commission, and the College of Paramedics commencing in June 2015 and continuing thereafter; 4. Sending an email dated November 20, 2015, which was unprofessional in both content and tone to [Person C], copying members of the Board of Directors of [Company D]; 5(a) Acting in an abusive, harassing and vulgar manner toward [Complainant E] before, during and after a meeting of [Company F] on June 30, 2015; 5(b) Making crude and vulgar comments about [Complainant E]’s wife during or after a meeting of [Company F] on June 30, 2015; 6. Publishing blog posts which are unprofessional in both content and tone at [website blog G] commencing in February 2016 and thereafter on an ongoing basis. In its decision the Hearing Panel found that and sending these allegations to family, business associates, other shareholders, and regulators, with the express intent of damaging [Complainant A], was clearly unprofessional. The Hearing Panel noted that Mr. Drover made these allegations as statements of fact in numerous complaints to regulators in Canada and the United States and in the many emails sent to individuals. He continued to make these allegations, despite the fact that the allegations were reviewed and not accepted by the Alberta Securities Commission, the RCMP, the Canada Revenue Agency, and the Toronto Stock Exchange. The Hearing Panel stated that harassing individuals and public agencies with a continuous flow of threats and accusations was clear and serious unprofessional conduct. In respect to the allegations relating to emails sent to the employees and representatives of APEGA, the Hearing Panel found that the accusations made by 3. Sending communications which are making allegations of criminal conduct against an individual and a corporation based only on speculation
Date:June 16, 2017
Case No.: 16-010-FH
REGARDING THE CONDUCT OF DAVID DROVER, P.GEO.
Pursuant to the Engineering and Geoscience Professions Act, an APEGA Disciplinary Hearing was held on August 15 and 16, 2016. The hearing addressed six allegations of unprofessional conduct concerning David H. Drover, P.Geo. Although he was served with the Notice of Hearing, Mr. Drover refused to attend the hearing and suggested that the Hearing Panel had no jurisdiction to proceed. The Hearing Panel determined that it did have the jurisdiction to proceed and the hearing proceeded in Mr. Drover’s absence. After hearing the 4 witnesses called by the Investigative Committee and reviewing the evidence that was produced and entered by the Investigative Committee, the Hearing Panel found that Mr. Drover was guilty of unprofessional conduct contrary to s. 44(1) of the Engineering and Geoscience Professions Act , in have failed to conduct himself with integrity, honesty, fairness, and objectivity; or in having failed to uphold and enhance the dignity and honour of his profession by acting in a manner that harms or tends to harm the standing of the profession generally, and which contravenes Rules 3 and 5 of the Code of Ethics, in respect to the following allegations: 1(a) Commencing in February 2015 and continuing thereafter on an ongoing basis sending numerous emails which are unprofessional, both in content and tone, to various individuals, corporations, and agencies, including APEGA, the Alberta Securities Commission, and the College of Paramedics, alleging improper conduct on the part of [Complainant A]; 1(b) Commencing in June 2015 and continuing thereafter on an ongoing basis sending numerous emails which are unprofessional, both in content and tone, to various individuals, corporations and agencies, including APEGA, the Alberta Securities
Commission, and the College of Paramedics, alleging that [Company B] is involved in illegal activities;
2. Sending numerous emails which are unprofessional both in content and tone
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