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Mayor confident courts will stop pipeline project

This despite another loss in court

A reference case before the B.C. Court of Appeal is expected to be heard next year, after evidence is filed The mayor of Burnaby is confident a court ruling will in September. Corrigan said the case eventually put an end to the “has a good chance of sucplanned expansion of the cess because I think that the Trans Mountain pipeline, status of the provincial govdespite another judicial deernment to be able to profeat to a legal challenge of tect their environmental the project. laws is very strong.” On Thursday, the SuAnother case headed to preme Court of Canada dismissed a City of Burnaby the Federal Court of Appeal rests on whether there was appeal of a Federal Court a failure to properly consult of Appeal ruling.The city First Nations. Corrigan said had unsuccessfully chalhe believes that case also lenged the National Energy has a strong Board’s juchance of risdiction in We want to success. Burnaby. exhaust our Corrigan The decisaid he didn’t sion marks remedies. know how the 17thmuch monconsecutive ey Burnaby court ruling has spent on in favour of its legal challenges.When Trans Mountain, according asked to give a rough estito the Canadian Press. “I wasn’t surprised by the mate, he repeated that he news,” Derek Corrigan said. did not know. Corrigan likened the “I don’t think we had high city’s situation to that of an expectations of being sucindividual wrongly accused cessful on that application of a crime, saying it would to the Supreme Court of be just as inappropriate to Canada.” Corrigan said the city was tell the city not to stand up compelled to go to the high- for itself as it would be to tell such an individual to est court in the country deplead guilty rather than seek spite its low odds. “In each of these instanc- expensive legal representation. es, we want to exhaust our “We didn’t ask for it.We remedies.We don’t want to didn’t offer our city up for leave anything untried.” this,” he said. “This was imThe City of Burnaby is posed upon us and someparty to four other challenges still before the courts. times it’s expensive to defend yourself.” Corrigan said he is more He said the city is payconfident that one of those ing its legal fees using casicases will be successful in no funds. halting the proposed twin“This hasn’t been a burning of the pipeline carrying den on the taxpayer,” he diluted bitumen from the Edmonton area to Burnaby. said. Kelvin Gawley

kgawley@burnabynow.com

What a Mess! WHEN WILL IT EVER END? Some NOW readers have been wondering why the stretch of Lougheed Highway near Brentwood Town Centre is all torn up. FortisBC is upgrading its gas lines and has had to block sections of the road periodically. Unfortunately, the work is expected to continue well into October and move towards Bainbridge. Construction hours are Monday to Friday from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. on. The project will upgrade 20 kilometres of natural gas line through Burnaby, Coquitlam and Vancouver. Residents can contact the project phone line 24-7 at 604-592-7494 or email gaslineupgrades@fortisbc.com. PHOTO CHUNG CHOW

City worker files complaint over allergy Kelvin Gawley

kgawley@burnabynow.com

A woman who has worked for the City of Burnaby for 26 years has filed a human rights complaint against the municipality for allegedly failing to accommodate her allergy to latex balloons. Tracy Klewchuk, who worked as an auxiliary employee at Bill Copeland Sports Centre and Kensingtion Complex, claims she informed her employer of her allergy to latex in 2007 or 2008. Instead of switching to balloons made from a dif-

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ferent material, Klewchuk says her supervisors scheduled her to work when there wouldn’t be balloons present but that resulted in her working fewer hours. Klewchuk claims her supervisors refused to use mylar (a latex alternative) balloons, remove balloons from the sites and later gave her a bad performance review in retaliation for complaining about these issues. The allegations became public this week, when a B.C. Human Rights Tribunal member ruled on whom Klewchuk’s complaint should apply to. Devyn Cousineau dis-

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missed the complaint against three City of Burnaby supervisors – Kathryn Carriss, Arlene Mann and Alicia Myton. No ruling has been made on the substance of Klewchuk’s complaint, which will now proceed with the City of Burnaby as the sole respondent. “The city accepts full responsibility for the actions of the individual respondents,” Cousineau wrote. “The city has not applied to have Ms. Klewchuk’s complaint dismissed without a hearing.” Cousineau notes that the city stopped using latex bal-

loons at Kensington and Copeland in 2016. The complaint seems to rest on the question of whether the city failed to accommodate Klewchuk’s physical disability (her latex allergy). “Accommodation can be a complex exercise,” Cousineau wrote. “Because intent is not a requirement of discrimination, even actions undertaken with the best of intentions can ultimately be found to have fallen short.” A date for the hearing between Klewchuk and the City of Burnaby has not been set.

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