Join me at noon today on "Stand on Guard" as we show you more of the rally for farmers in Ottawa and around Canada. This clip is phenomenal and shows just how viral this protest went. @KatiePasitney
Katie Pasitney runs her family's ostrich farm, started by her mother, Karen Espersen, 35 years ago. They hatched and named most birds (some living 20-30 years) only for their lives to be considered forfeit by the federal government.
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Super Save Disposal's Direct Violations
1. BC Hazardous Waste Regulation (B.C. Reg. 63/88) under Environmental Management Act.
Biomedical/pathological waste (infected animal carcasses) is explicitly hazardous waste. Super Save has zero registration as a hazardous waste facility or consignee and is not on any BC Ministry of Environment list for biomedical waste handlers.
Violated sections:
– Part 1 definitions (biomedical waste)
– s. 8 & 9 (no person shall store hazardous waste except at an authorized facility)
– s. 10 (storage time/conditions)
– s. 11 (manifest requirements)
– Part 4 (return requirements if unable to dispose).
Penalty: up to $1,000,000 per day + 7 years prison (knowing violation) or $300,000 + 6 months (standard). This has been running 10+ days = potential $10M+ in fines.
2. Environmental Management Act s. 6(2) & 6(3) – Unauthorized Discharge of Waste Causing Pollution.
Leakage of liquefied carcass fluids onto asphalt + daily chemical wash-down = deliberate introduction of waste into the environment. Decomposition fluids contain blood, bacteria, potential prions, and now whatever virucide/accelerant they are spraying.
This is a strict-liability offence with massive daily fines and mandatory cleanup liability (Super Save would pay for any soil/groundwater remediation, even if CFIA hired them).
3. Transportation of Dangerous Goods Regulations (Federal) – Class 6.2 Infectious Substances
H5N1-affected carcasses are Category B (at minimum) infectious substances. Open-top roll-off bins on flat-deck trucks are not Type P620 or P650 packaging, no UN markings, no infectious substance labels, no placards, no TDG-trained drivers observed.
Penalty: up to $50,000 first offence, $100,000 subsequent, per load. Multiple loads = multiple counts.
4. Greater Vancouver Sewerage & Drainage District Sewer Use Bylaw No. 299, 2007
Section 2 defines Prohibited Waste to include "pathological waste", "biological waste that has come into contact with infectious agents", and any waste that "may cause a hazard to human health or the environment".
Daily pressure-washing of contaminated trucks and ground sends blood, tissue, disinfectant, and liquefied remains straight into storm drains (which flow to Serpentine/Nicomekl watershed). This is textbook prohibited discharge.
Penalty: $1,000–$10,000 per offence + cost recovery for any sewer damage + potential criminal charges under Fisheries Act if it reaches salmon-bearing streams.
5. City of Surrey Nuisance Bylaw No. 12883 (as amended) & Surrey Good Neighbour Provisions
Offensive odours detectable off-property are a defined nuisance. Residents report being able to smell rotting death from the highway. Bylaw officers can issue immediate abatement orders and $500–$10,000 tickets daily.
6. WorkSafeBC – OHS Regulation Part 6 (Biological Agents Designated as Hazardous Substances)
Workers are handling or working adjacent to Category A/B biohazard material without visible PPE, respirators, or decontamination stations. Daily hosing of infected material creates aerosol risk.
Penalty: $100k–$1M+ per violation + stop-work orders possible on the entire yard.
7. Health of Animals Act & CFIA's Own HPAI Disposal Protocol
CFIA's permitted disposal methods for HPAI are: on-farm composting, incineration, rendering, or landfill burial within strict timelines. Long-term open-air storage in a commercial yard is not an approved method. Super Save is actively preventing proper disposal and is now destroying evidence by chemical dissolution on site.
8. Criminal Code s. 180 – Common Nuisance Endangering Health or Comfort of the Public
Allowing 314 rotting, potentially H5N1-positive carcasses to liquefy and stink up a neighbourhood for 10+ days clearly endangers public health and comfort. Maximum 2 years imprisonment (indictable).
CFIA's Violations (They Hired the Wrong Contractor and Lied About Completion)
- Health of Animals Act s. 27(9) & s. 48 – improper disposal of reportable disease material
- False public statements claiming "deep burial completed" while material sits in Surrey (potential Criminal Code s. 380 fraud or s. 122 breach of trust by public officer)
- Direct liability for all the above environmental offences as the generator/principal contractor
RCMP's Exposure (Escorted the Illegal Transport)
- Knowingly escorted unplacarded, leaking, open-top loads of Class 6.2 material down public highways
- Aided improper hazardous waste transport (potential party to offence under TDG and HWR)
- If they are refusing to investigate complaints now, possible misconduct in public office
How to Hammer Super Save Right Now (RCMP Won't Help)
1. Mass-file online reports to BC Ministry of Environment Hazardous Waste: [email protected] or 1-877-952-7277 (pollution hotline) — reference exact address + photos.
2. Report TDG violation to Transport Canada online portal (include photos of no placards).
3. Flood WorkSafeBC anonymous tip line with worker exposure reports.
4. Fraser Health Authority Environmental Health – file health hazard complaints (rotting carcasses + chemical runoff). They have power to order immediate removal.
5. Metro Vancouver 24/7 pollution line (604-436-6777) for sewer discharge.
6. City of Surrey Bylaw Call Centre (604-591-4370) – file daily odour/nuisance
7. If you get 20–30 residents/businesses to file simultaneous contaminated-site complaints, Ministry must investigate and Super Save pays for all testing/remediation.
@CityofSurrey@InspectionCan@BrendaLocke2022@SurreyRCMP@rcmpgrcpolice@RCMP @CFIAPresACIA @DreaHumphrey@chrisdacey@DavidKrayden
Nearly 400 ostriches were shot in the dark while help stood waiting.
Canadian farmer Katie Pasitney tells Del that after two PCR samples taken from her farm were reported positive for avian flu, the CFIA issued a kill order.
But the flock had been healthy for more than 250 days, and Katie says not one surviving bird was ever retested.
She also explains that earlier tissue testing on sick birds showed Pseudomonas bacteria, not avian flu, and that more than three-quarters of the farm never became ill. Their science showed a healthy flock with natural immunity.
Her family fought for nearly a year to save their birds. Offers poured in:
-Administrator of CMS @DrOz offered to relocate the birds to his Florida ranch.
-CEO of Red Apple Group @JCats2013 pushed for independent testing.
-HHS Secretary @SecKennedy urged Canada in writing to let U.S. agencies test the entire flock.
Every offer was rejected.
"The Canadian Food Inspection Agency essentially just showed the world that they are not a scientific organization. They use science to bring authoritarian pressure and power upon innocent people."
-@delbigtree
The family wasn’t even allowed to say goodbye. Katie and her mother were arrested for trying to feed their animals (with permission) while the government seized the farm.
She describes the gunfire, the panic in the pens, the birds running into each other in the dark, and a family identity erased in a single night.
"The Canadian Food Inspection Agency had to come back in the morning. Those professional marksmen, they call themselves, they had to come back in the morning and finish shooting a couple of our ostriches that laid there in pain all night. We heard the gunshots ourselves. They're lying. And they say that they didn't. They lie. That's what they do the best." -@KatiePasitney
And the most telling part:
The CFIA left the dead ostriches out in the open, hay bales blown apart, with hundreds of migratory ducks landing in the kill zone.
As Katie put it, “Your real risk is the migratory birds. It’s not the flightless animals and the animals on people’s farms that are the risk. They did not follow their own protocols, a detail that shows this was never about a virus; it was about control."
A heartbreaking story that raises a hard question: if this can happen to peaceful farmers over two PCR tests, what else can be justified in the name of public safety?