YOU are making a difference. Your phone calls, and emails are changing the minds of compassionate companies who want to have nothing to do with the culling of healthy animals, healthy pets, like anyone's own dog or cat.
Sunbelt Rentals was going to supply a scissor lift and boom lift, likely in relation to building the hay bale wall being erected around the pen of the Ostriches, but upon finding out what their equipment was going to be used for, they recalled it and stated they did not know what the CFIA intended to use it for.
Dawson Idealease was supposed to supply flatbed trucks to transport the hay bales, but upon receipt of numerous calls and emails from supporters like you, they recalled their trucks and issued a statement they too had no idea what the CFIA was using their equipment for.
If you continue to have energy and a will to stop a government agency which purports to be acting as our public servants, but is not listening to public outcry, nor logic, nor science, from carrying out this act of autocratic brutality, please consider contacting Super Save Group out of Surrey. They are supplying the fencing panels being used in the cull. Their contact information will be below. As always, please strive to be polite when contacting companies. Passion is good, insults are not. We must hold ourselves to a higher standard.
According to witnesses, Super Save Group covered up their vehicles logos with tape, which is a violation of Commercial Vehicle safety and Enforcement rules in BC.
Another company, D&N Ventures, according to witnesses, also with tape covering their vehicles logos, delivered hay bales to the back of the farm. They have no readily accessible contact information. The CFIA is determined to carry out their bureaucratic policy, and will use whatever weaselly, slippery tactics they need to achieve their single minded objective. Disgraceful.
Katie and her mother Karen were both arrested by the RCMP for refusing to leave the pens while tending to the ostriches. They were later released. These poor farmers haven't been through enough torture, now its arrests.
The level of police presence, the amount of tax payer money being utilized, is Orwellian. According to witnesses, supported by videos, the number of police vehicles may have been between 15 to 20, with the number of officers between 40 up to 80. I suppose this small army of police officers is necessary to deal with 3 farmers and some peaceful supporters. It's not like there were 164 violent crimes in Castlegar (100k km from Edgewood) in 2024 that need investigation, or more than 15 fatalities from overdoses in the region, or an increase in business break and enter thefts this year, or that Williams Lake declared a state of emergency or increasing street disorder, violence and homelessness, or that Kamloops was until very recently considered Canada's crime capital. But, no, a platoon of officers is needed to control peaceful farmers and supporters to kill healthy birds, healthy pets. But, the officers are "Just doing my job." The reasoning given throughout history to justify carrying out countless examples of human cruelty.
It's interesting to note that the police have been at the farm for days, but none of them have been wearing PPE. No masks on any officers. And yet, according to the CFIA, the ostriches pose a risk to human health transmitting H5N1. How odd.
Global News had a story about cats becoming infected with H5N1 as a result of being in contact with and consuming wild birds. The CFIA recognizes that mammals like cats can spread H5N1, but the CFIA considers pet to human transmission of H5N1 as being of low likelihood. Transmission of H5N1 from ostriches to humans is also considered low probability. As has so often been repeated, the ostriches on the farm are not used for food, are nowhere near other poultry, avian flu is endemic in the wild bird population, and, the ostriches are the farmer's pets. But, the CFIA has a "stamping out" policy and they will not be defied by logic, science, or compassion.
Ultimately, human life is one full of injustices, and this is another one in our long history of acts which defy reason and humanity. But, good hearted people, like yourself, like the companies which have refused to cooperate with the CFIA, step up when injustice rears its head once again.
If you have the time, energy, and emotional capacity to keep calling, emailing, speaking out, please keep doing so.
Our government must be taught to become one which "follows the science" as it so often purports to do and to not treat every situation as a nail to be hammered down, but like a tree to be pruned and tended.
I have added the name of John Balow, Conservative Shadow Minister for Agriculture and Agri-Food to speak to his counterpart Heath Macdonald, Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, encouraging him to push the CFIA to reconsider and for this vitally important issue to be elevated to the Supreme Court.
I have added the contact information for the Media Relations Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Agri-Food and the CFIA Complaints page (if this inhumane cull goes forward, I hope they receive so many messages they will need to buy a warehouse of cookies to get Santa to take them off his naughty list).
I have added the contact information for Sunbelt and Dawson to give them some much deserved appreciation and praise.
I have added the contact information for Super Save Group and D&N (what seems to be available, limited as it is) to contact them and ask they do the right thing, what their consciences tell them is right.
Please watch Rebel News and check on X for the latest updates on this Canadian tragedy, filled with moments of hope and heroism.
May justice and humanity still prevail.
Companies
SUPER SAVE GROUP (Supplying Fence Panels) (Please Be Polite When Contacting)
Phone : 1.800.665.2800
Email : sales@supersave.ca
D&N VENTURES LTD (Potentially Transported Hay Bales) (Please Be Polite When Contacting)
Possible Address : 2350 Forest View Place, Blind Bay, BC V0E 1H2
Possible Email : dbaskill@hotmail.com
Possible Owners : Daniel and Bonnie Baskill
SUNBELT RENTALS (Ostrich Supporter / Share Thanks)
Phone : 1-866-296-4214
Contact Form : https://www.sunbeltrentals.com/customer-support/forms/contact/
DAWSON IDEALEASE (Ostrich Supporter / Share Thanks)
Phone : 1-844.454.1251
Contact Form : https://www.dawsonidealease.com/contact/
CLEARWAY : Car and Truck Rentals (Ostrich Supporter / Share Thanks)
Phone : (604) 850-6522
Contact Form : https://clearwaybc.ca/contact/
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9. MLA: Hon. David Eby, K.C. (Share Thanks / Ostrich Supporter)
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Vancouver-Point Grey
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Phone: 604-660-1297
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Constituency Office Phone: 250-479-4154
Email: Lana.Popham.MLA@leg.bc.ca
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Telephone: 613-995-3501
Email : scott.anderson@parl.gc.ca
12. Hui Hang
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Email: hui.hang@inspection.gc.ca
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