#GlobalNews The Supreme Court of Canada unanimously dismissed the applicant’s motion for new evidence and dismissed the farm owner's appeal in a decision posted online on Thursday morning.
The Universal Ostrich Farm in Edgewood, B.C., challenged the Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s (CFIA) order to cull the flock after an outbreak of avian flu was detected last Dec. 31.
The CFIA said in a statement Thursday that it would move forward with the cull.
Andrea Macpherson reports on the latest developments in the case and what’s next for the B.C. farm.
00:00Breaking news this morning, the Supreme Court of Canada has announced it will not hear an appeal from the B.C. ostrich farm trying to save its flock from a cull order.
00:08Andrew McPherson is joining us in studio with the latest details. So, Andrea, what does this mean?
00:14The dismissal of the appeal from the Supreme Court of Canada essentially means the cull can go ahead.
00:19This is more than 10 months in the making at the Universal Ostrich Farm in Edgewood, where avian flu was first detected on the farm back in December of 2024.
00:28Now, that resulted in the death of 69 birds.
00:32At the farm in Edgewood this morning, protesters and others were anxiously awaiting the news, and this is obviously not the news they wanted to hear.
00:40The farm pushed back against the original order launching unsuccessful legal challenges in federal court and the Federal Court of Appeal.
00:48The CFIA arrived at the farm in September to carry out the cull, but the Supreme Court issued that last-minute stay order, sparing the birds until it decided whether to hear the farm's appeal, which was not successful.
01:01Farm owners and operated devastated by today's news.
01:05Our government has made a decision that we'll never, ever come back from.
01:12This is the worst mistake in Canadian history.
01:15This has been a fight for 11 months, and a fight for 11 months for life versus death.
01:21This has not been about breaking laws or setting a dangerous precedent.
01:25Canadian Food Inspection Agency has set the most dangerous precedent today, and that is that our voices don't matter.
01:31And we have some breaking news just in.
01:35The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says it will move forward with a complete call of the ostriches.
01:42And since the court announced it will dismiss the case, the farm would have no more legal options to stop the call as protests there have been ongoing.
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