A Notice of Civil Claim was filed against DWR June 20/22. The Response to Civil Claim and a Counterclaim was received July 2022. Due to the outlandish accusations and the zeroing in on me disseminating the drone videos and pictures to others, Jason Gratl filed an application under the Protection of Public Participation Act. That froze all the documents until a decision was made on the PPPA application. The Honourable Justice Morley issued Reasons for Judgment Apr. 8/24. The document below is Jason Gratl responding to what’s left 🙂 of DWR’s July 2022 Counterclaim after Jusice Morley ‘pruned’ it.
The PPPA is to protect people from being sued by those who have deep pockets, companies and local governments, and want you to shut up. Prevent you from being publicly critical of them. The fastest way is to threaten you with a lawsuit. That’s what Borden Ladner, Gervais did with COBBS but were unsuccessful. That’s where money hijacks the legal system because how many people could afford to run up legal bills with no end in sight? Their lawyers can just endlessly drag it out over years because it serves their purpose – put fear in everyone who hears about it, ensuring they too will shut up. By investing lawyers hours they accomplish forced group silence, which is more valuable than lawyers hours. That’s what SLAPP suits accomplished. Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation.
The BC PPPA was enacted in 2019. Before that, people were being sued by companies and even local governments, using taxpayers money, for being publicly critical.
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