We, the undersigned residents, taxpayers, parents, and community athletes of the Province of British Columbia, are formally presenting an urgent request for an immediate, coordinated administrative review and freeze on the public facility and sports field permits granted to the British Columbia Mainland Cricket League (BCMCL).

Public sports fields and park infrastructures are valuable community assets funded directly by local municipal taxpayers to foster a safe, inclusive, and healthy environment for everyone. However, the current leadership of the BCMCL is actively utilizing public grounds across our regions to engage in targeted harassment, intimidation, and punitive enforcement that directly compromises the well-being of local youth and adult athletes alike.

We are bringing forward evidence of severe Code of Conduct and Safe Sport violations by the BCMCL President and leadership, including:

1. Severe Intimidation and Lifetime Ban Threats Against Youth

• Targeting Minors: Exploiting a position of institutional power to threaten young, vulnerable players with lifetime bans from the sport simply for seeking additional playing opportunities in independent community events.
• Surreptitious Surveillance and Extortion: Taking hidden, non-consensual photographs of youth players at external community sporting events, and utilizing these images as a tool for administrative extortion and psychological intimidation to force compliance with internal league exclusivity rules (Rule 10).

2. Systemic Harassment, Bullying, and Unfair Suspensions of Adult Players

• Pattern of Hostility: Beyond the targeting of youth, adult and senior players across the league are being subjected to aggressive verbal threats, toxic bullying, and sudden, malicious suspensions under Rule 10.
• Retaliation for Participation: Dedicated local athletes and taxpayers are being heavily penalized and stripped of their player autonomy simply for wanting to play the sport they love outside of the BCMCL framework. This heavy handed retaliation severely damages local club cohesion mid-season and destroys the spirit of community sportsmanship.

This predatory and aggressive behavior directly violates the standard Parks, Recreation and Culture Codes of Conduct enforced by British Columbia municipalities, which explicitly state that behavior that frightens, demoralizes, or negatively affects the self-esteem of park users will not be tolerated. Public municipal infrastructure must never be allocated to organizations whose leadership uses surveillance, extortion, and systemic bullying against local citizens.

Our Declaration and Objective:

We urge the municipal governments of the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley to protect their residents, uphold their strict legal and moral commitments to child safety, and ensure fair, un-weaponized access to public spaces by executing the following immediate actions:

1. Launch an Immediate Multi-Jurisdictional Conduct Investigation: Investigate the actions of BCMCL leadership on and relating to city-permitted facilities regarding the harassment of players and the unauthorized surveillance of youth.
2. Freeze or Condition Field Permits: Place strict administrative conditions or temporary freezes on all current and future field allocations to the BCMCL across all municipalities until a thorough Safe Sport audit is completed and league leadership is held accountable to municipal conduct standards.
3. Protect Player Autonomy for All Ages: Ensure that no British Columbia resident, child or adult, is barred from public recreational infrastructure or penalized by a permit holder for maximizing their physical activity and participation across regional sports initiatives.