B.C. Supreme Court sides with Abbotsford over homeless camp at city hall

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Posted October 17, 2024 8:13 pm

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The B.C. Supreme Court has sided with the City of Abbotsford’s plans to wide a stateless encampment from metropolis hall, the municipality said Thursday.

The encampment sprang up successful aboriginal summer, starring to a months-long standoff with the city.

In September, the municipality issued a trespass announcement to radical surviving successful the encampment.

The Matsqui-Abbotsford Impact Society challenged the announcement successful tribunal connected behalf of a radical called the Abbotsford Drug War Survivors, seeking an injunction blocking its enforcement.

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In a media release, the metropolis said B.C. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Sukstorf rejected that exertion and upheld the city’s bylaw.

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“The City of Abbotsford is pleased with Justice Sukstorf’s determination to contradict the Drug War Survivor’s injunction exertion and uphold our bylaw,” the metropolis said successful a statement.

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“The City’s lawyers volition beryllium reviewing today’s 74-page ruling by Justice Sukstorf and providing further proposal to the City,” the metropolis said successful a statement.

In the meantime, the metropolis said it volition support moving with BC Housing and the state to code homelessness successful the community.

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