Canadian Supreme Court grants in BC ostrich case
The Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) has issued a migration in the case of a BC Austrich Farm, fighting an avian flu outbreak to stop a box of its 400-bird herd on an outbreak.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency was preparing to destroy the herd at the Universal Austrich Farm near Edgadi Deogwood in the south -east BC in some animals last December.
The order issued on Wednesday, the agency stops notice to settle on December 31, 2024, while the court abandoned the field application to appeal to the lower court’s decision, which allowed the total to move forward.
The SCC order says that the application for the holiday to appeal will be dealt with on a quick basis.
The court directed that the CFIA maintains custody of birds and said that the farm should not interfere with a decision pending federal monitoring on the application. The agency should file any response by October 3, the farm will be allowed to respond within two days of that filing.
In a statement sent late on Wednesday night, the CFIA said it would work with RCMP and follow the “Violence and Dangers of Death” by “clear supporters of the ostrich form”.
The statement said, “CFIA will maintain bird custody as per the order by the Supreme Court of Canada.” “CFIA will provide appropriate feed and water with veterinary oversight, while birds are in custody of agency.”
BC’s West Kotaneya has a last minute time for hundreds of ostrich. With the Canadian Food Inspection Agency on the site, ready to start a pile of birds, the owners of the farm are doing everything they can do.
‘They live today’: Welcome to supporters
RCMP authorities-CFIA was called to help maintain peace during CULL-Khet spokesperson Katie Pasitney and his mother Karen Esserson, who were co-owners of the farm on Tuesday, refused to leave the ostrich’s attachment on the last night.
They were allowed to return home, but are prohibited from entering the pen of birds, which is under the control of the CFIA.
The news of the interim stay order came on the farm, as if a crowd of people gathered for prayer, and the supporters burst into cheers when Pasitney announced the verdict.
Mother and daughter hugged the festival, Pasitney announced, “They live today.”
“We have time and some time to find out what the next steps are,” he said.
Esparson said that this news made him feel numb, but was very happy.
“I just want to run and hug my birds inside, but I can’t do it now,” she told reporters.
“This is the power of prayer,” he said, “It was very close.”
A lawyer and executive director of the lawyer organization Animal Justice, Kemili Labchuk called the decision “the eleventh hour’s lifeline”, saying that animal law cases rarely reach the Supreme Court.
“The ruling sends an important indication that animals like ostrich are individuals whose life matters,” he said in a statement to CBC News.
Animal rights lawyer said that he is “deeply concerned about the fate of these ostrich,” asking whether the avian flu was first detected.
A ostrich of the West Kuton has more tension in the farm. According to a report by CBC’s Brady Streche, the police arrested two farmers to oppose an order by government officials who would kill about 400 birds.
“The ostrich is intelligent, long -living and sensitive animals whose life has a personal value,” Labchuk said. “They should not only be killed to prove a point about the regulatory authority, especially if the risk of disease transmission has already passed.”
The bundling enclosure attached to the fire
CFIA officials on Tuesday began to construct enclosures using high bones as part of preparations for the throat.
On Wednesday morning, police later said that a suspect was on fire.
Workers can be seen spraying black areas with water as smoke from the three meter high enclosure.
The co-owner of the farm Dave Bilinsky said on Wednesday that they would never start a fire nor condemn it, and the farm has its own fire system due to the concerns of peat or grass fire on the property.
Later on Wednesday, in a release, RCMP stated that emergency employees were called to the field shortly before 4 o’clock and found that the grass lumps were completely climbed into flames and smoke. ” It said that the cause of the fire is currently under investigation.
On Wednesday, the ostrich was seen behind the burnt wall, grazing and moving around, while many RCMP vehicles were stationed in front of the enclosure.
Long court fight continues
Farmers have brought their fight to save about 400 living ostrictions at several levels of the court, arguing that they are now healthy and scientifically valuable.
Both the Federal Court and the Federal Court of Appeal dismissed the arguments and the appeal court later refused to complete the order to reduce animals.
The owners have repeatedly called for a test to determine the situation of birds.
However, the federal agency stated in court documents that its policies do not allow for additional testing of herds. It said that the risk of ostrich being infected or re -infected “The interval in the available science is unknown due to the (avian influenza) virus how long can there be immunity in a individual ostrich for the virus.”
The CFIA states that the birds were infected with more deadly stress of the avian flu virus. It states that the sources of infection may remain in the atmosphere for a long time after the infected birds are cured, which has posed a risk of reinforcement.
CBC News has reached RCMP and CFIA for his comment on the interim stay order.
