Lawyers for the Solicitor General asked a Divisional Court judge to quash the bid for a judicial review, citing a time\u002Dlimit technicality.
Stéphane Émard-Chabot, lawyer for the grassroots opposition groups, said the province “ignored” provincial policy concerning permitted uses of farmland, “failed to consider” the municipality of North Grenville’s official plan — which designates the 180-acre farmland as agricultural — and didn’t meet its obligations for community consultations before announcing the project.
“The province is claiming undue hardship by arguing that my clients took too much time to file their judicial review application and that the government has already spent considerable funds on the project. My clients are ordinary citizens who volunteered much of their time to try to get the Ford government to explain its site selection process and prove that it followed that process, only to be met with roadblocks and even outright hostility,” he continued.
“Although we’re using the public announcement of the project on Aug. 27, 2020, as the decision moment, this in fact is a process that evolved over a number of years,” Émard-Chabot said. “This is a different situation. This is not a review of a tribunal decision, it’s an announcement of a minister’s decision.”Article content
“They had exactly four pages of records at their disposal … four slides from public presentations,” Émard-Chabot said. “All those provide are a handful of bullet points justifying the choice of Kemptville … Without that record, there wasn’t a cogent opportunity to challenge the government’s decision.”
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