Our lawsuit to quash the series of decisions by the City of Vancouver and Park Board which led to years of logging in Stanley Park was heard on November 8 through November 10, 2025 in Vancouver. Justice Jasvinder S. Basran took our case under reserve, meaning he needs more time to render his decision. If he finds in our favour, it is unlikely that extensive additional logging will continue this winter as planned.
Our lawyers, Malcolm Funt and Charlotte Chamberlain of Vancouver law firm Bojm, Funt & Gibbons LLP, argued that the continuing removals of thousands of trees in Stanley Park are the result of unreasonable decisions and procedural unfairness by the City of Vancouver and the Park Board.
We assert that City of Vancouver and Park Board claims that trees impacted by the hemlock looper pose a danger to the public are contrary to overwhelming scientific evidence, that trees are not being assessed properly by provincially certified tree risk assessors, and that the City usurped the authority of the Park Board by executing contracts with logging contractor B.A. Blackwell & Associates and felling trees before obtaining consent as required from the elected Park Board commissioners.
If we are successful, the Court’s orders will likely set precedent on how governmental bodies must be guided by scientific evidence before approving logging under the pretext of "public safety."
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Four citizens of Vancouver and the Stanley Park Preservation Society appeared before the Supreme Court of British Columbia on November 5 - 7, 2025 to help preserve Stanley Park by blocking further unnecessary and destructive logging.
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