Cambie St. Law Suit Update - More Good Citizenship
Court fight brewing over Cambie Street
By DHARM MAKWANA, 24 HOURS
A group of Cambie Street small-business owners are building momentum, on the back of a B.C. Supreme Court ruling, to launch a class-action lawsuit against the province for financial losses caused by Canada Line construction.
Susan Heyes, maternity clothes designer and head of Hazel & Co., is leading the litigation charge after the province's attorneys failed to quash her case for compensation before the court Wednesday.
"I'm appalled that I even have to be talking about suing my own government for damage caused by a project that they insisted on building," she said.
Vancouver-Fairview MLA Gregor Robertson, a staunch small-business supporter, took the fight to Transportation Minister Kevin Falcon yesterday in the Legislature, only to be told the province will not comment on the Cambie Street quagmire until a judge rules on Heyes' complaint.
"They've already destroyed these small businesses and now they're going to fight them in court," Robertson said. "It's abominable."
Heyes, who claims to have lost $400,000 in net revenue since November 2005, said a year-long wait for her case to be heard should do nothing to diminish her cause.
3 comments:
Stand up, seems to be a theme.
Stand -- Sly and the Family Stone
Stand
In the end you'll still be you
One that's done all the things you set out to do
Stand
There's a cross for you to bear
Things to go through if you're going anywhere
Stand
For the things you know are right
It's the truth that the truth makes them so uptight
Stand
All the things you want are real
You have you to complete and there is no deal
Stand
You've been sitting much too long
There's a permanent crease in your right and wrong
Stand
There's a midget standing tall
And the giant beside him about to fall
Stand
They will try to make you crawl
And they know what you're saying makes sense and all
Stand
Don't you know that you are free
Well at least in your mind if you want to be
Everybody
Stand, stand, stand
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Mo.
""I'm appalled that I even have to be talking about suing my own government for damage caused by a project that they insisted on building," she said. Doesn't this just display what fine, honourable men and women WE elect as OUR Representatives? Shame on US.
After seeing what is happening on Cambie street it confuses me greatly as to why the polititians would be even considering the line out to UBC that would go along Broadway or west 10th ave. Do they actually believe that the property owners and merchants now knowing what they know would not stand up and fight to see this project stopped. Sure traffic is busy along the various routes to UBC but I don't think that the campus's enrollment is going to grow much larger,housing won't,so why spend the money? But then you know the joke about politicians? Some of them get elected!
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