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Constant Energy is one of the Agency’s creditors and clarification is being sought over  Gary and Valerie Goodyear’s joint ownership of the company and its dealings with Imagine.

 

Citing conflict of interest concerns and asserting that he had no knowledge of any of the events leading up to Imagine’s bankruptcy filing, Mr Goodyear stated that he “could not answer questions”  related to either Imagine or Constant Energy. Referring to certain press releases published by BDO Dunwoody in respect to these matters, Mr Goodyear suggested that everything that merited publication was publically available and that anything else published was counter productive.

 

In response to a question regarding  Constant Energy, Mr Goodyear said that he didn’t know about it “even before when (he) was a chiropractor”.

 

Mr Goodyear asserted that the media should be focussed on the plight of the Ethiopian orphans who are at the epicentre of the storm surrounding Imagine’s bankruptcy and who may find themselves abandoned just when it appeared that new lives had been found for them with adoptive parents in Canada. 

 

Showing several photographs of his wife, Valerie, with some of these children taken in Ethiopia, he said that this was the “real tragedy” of Imagine’s bankruptcy. He said that his wife has been very distressed about these children and remains profoundly anxious for their well-being.

 

Mr Goodyear added that his wife along with 18 other employees of Imagine had been completely shocked and taken by surprise when news of the agency’s insolvency became public and which resulted in their loss of employment. “We can deal with the loss of a job” said Mr Goodyear, “but it is more difficult to deal with what may happen to these children”. “We are both devastated for these people”.

 

Mr Goodyear’s involvement in this matter suggests that he continues to appropriately comply with the legal requirements of his position and that he has no prior knowledge of Imagine and Constant Energy’s history. 

 

The tangled web woven by the Imagine Adoption Agency’s bankruptcy is increasingly murky. BDO Dunwoody, as the agency’s trustee has promised that their findings will be published as they become known. In particular BDO has recently expressed some optimism that the status of the 50 children in Ethiopia would be satisfactorily resolved. This would certainly bring relief not only to their adoptive parents but also to Mr and Mrs Goodyear whose anxieties and concern for these children is so great.