Type: Decision
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Preliminary Decision: BC Vegetable Greenhouse I, L.P. v. British Columbia Vegetable Marketing Commission
Appeal of BCVMC’s Order 10/03(a) requiring BC Vegetable Greenhouse I, L.P. to remit $376,642 in outstanding levies. The BCVMC and BC Hot House sought summary dismissal of the appeal. The Board dismissed most grounds as frivolous or an abuse of process, but allowed the appeal to proceed on jurisdiction and computation issues.
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Decision: British Columbia Fruit Growers’ Association v. British Columbia Tree Fruit Marketing Board
Appeal of BCTFMB’s decision to deny a grant for a marketing initiative.
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Decision: Supervisory review of the B.C. greenhouse vegetable industry
The B.C. Marketing Board issues a decision addressing various issues in the regulated vegetable sector, including marketing exemptions, levy impositions, and marketing conditions.
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Preliminary decision: B.C. Egg Hatchery Association v. B.C. Chicken Marketing Board
The B.C. Marketing Board issues a decision on BCEHA’s appeal for a stay of BCCMB’s decision regarding over-hatch placements, pending appeal. The stay is granted to maintain the status quo until the appeal is heard.
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Decision: Baran and Baran v. Roberts
Complaint related to dust and pest infestations, including flies and rodents, from a poultry farm in Aldergrove.
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Preliminary decision: Baird v. Plasterer
Complaint related to noise, land clearing, burning, and rodents from a cattle operation. Jurisdictional issue raised regarding whether the practices result from a farm business under the FPPA. Complaint was referred to a hearing.
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Preliminary decision: Baran v. Country Drive Poultry Farm Ltd.
This decision was about whether neighbours’ complaints of farm odour and waste management issues should be dismissed as trivial. The Board approved the complaint to proceed to a full hearing.
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Decision: Baran v. Country Drive Poultry Farm Ltd., and Roberts
Complaint related to rodents, flies, manure spreading, dumping of rotten eggs, mortality disposal, and dust from a poultry farm in Aldergrove.
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Procedural decision: British Columbia Chicken Growers Association v. British Columbia Chicken Marketing Board
The B.C. Marketing Board denies the B.C. Chicken Growers Association’s (BCCGA) application to stay a B.C. Chicken Marketing Board (BCCMB) decision that removed the over-marketing levy for period A-53.
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Procedural decision: Andrusek v. British Columbia Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
Procedural decision regarding the late filing of a fee for an appeal of a BC SPCA seizure decision. The appeal was accepted due to exceptional circumstances involving the use of a courier service for next-day delivery.