According to a ruling issued Thursday, the province of B.C. cannot be held liable for blocking residents from accessing their homes because "there is no suggestion that the province owned, occupied or made use of [the] land."
The lower court's decision had ruled that the province’s almost three-year extension of the state of local emergency that barred the homeowners from living in or accessing their properties had ceased to be lawful.
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A judge sided with three B.C. homeowners who took on the provincial government in a nuisance case stemming from a series of sinkholes in their subdivision in Sechelt.