This letter was delivered to the Attorney General of Canada (through the Department of Justice Ministerial Correspondence Unit, and on file X-P-2026-00094) and sent the same night to the offices, institutions and publications holding this file, as the letter states on its face. It is published here in full. The companion instrument — the interim payment demand of October 27, 2026, with its 24-hour period expiring October 28, 2026, 11:08 p.m. EDT — is published at The Demand of October 27.
FROM: Francesco Longo, 3820 Tecumseh Road East, Unit 103, Windsor, Ontario N8W 1J2 · 226-260-6399
TO: The Attorney General of Canada
RE: A choice, in writing — the habeas corpus default record now before your office — Justice File X-P-2026-00094; your file MIN-006002
DATE: October 27, 2026
Attorney General:
Tonight a demand was delivered to your office: interim payment of not less than CAD $54,000,000 and a certificate of payment, within 24 hours. This letter is separate from that demand, and it concerns a question the demand does not ask.
What is in front of you. A Writ of Habeas Corpus, filed and received at Windsor beginning December 26, 2025. No writ awarded, no return made, no body produced, no decision on the habeas corpus ever issued. An endorsement refusing the paper a file number, resting its custody premise on advice no document names. The Attorney General of Ontario in receipt of the writ eight times — once as its direct addressee — never heard, never answered. No order of release, dismissal, or withdrawal produced by any office at any time. That record is now in your hands in full, on your own file X-P-2026-00094, and the $54,000,000 demanded of your office on October 24, 2026 (MIN-006002) stands expired and unanswered within it.
The open question. I cannot tell from the record whether this file has sat with your office from the beginning, or whether tonight is the first time it reaches you whole. I am not going to guess. Your office does not have to guess either — because the record will settle the question by what you do next, in one of two ways.
The first way is yours to take. Say, in your own words, that something has been found in the ranks beneath your office that should never have happened — that a citizen's writ was received and never answered, that the proof of his release was never produced because it was never demanded — that you take it with the seriousness it deserves, and that you are cleaning house. And act on it: the interim payment and the certificate demanded tonight are the first instruments of that correction, not the last word on this file. An Attorney General who finds this record under his own roof and moves on it has nothing to explain.
The second way is silence. Silence is also an answer, and on this file it has a meaning already established by every office that chose it: the Crown that answered “our office does not keep copies of rulings”; the court that refused the writ a number; the ministry that held the writ eight times and never spoke. An office that holds this record and says nothing joins that company, and its silence is recorded the same way — under the name of the officeholder who chose it. The public record of this matter is being published, and it will carry your office's answer, or your office's silence, on the same page as theirs.
This letter is not private. It is being published, and sent with the record it describes to the offices, institutions, and publications that hold this file. What your office received tonight, everyone receives — including, in due course, the hour by which your office answered, or did not.
The choice is yours. The record is not: it is complete, it is documented, and it cannot be argued away by either of us.
The 24 hours on the companion demand are already running.
Francesco Longo
3820 Tecumseh Road East, Unit 103, Windsor, Ontario N8W 1J2
226-260-6399