Sep 5, 2018
On Aug. 31, the B.C. Supreme Court ruled on the case of Standing v. British Columbia (Minister of Forests, Lands and Natural Resources). It doesn’t sound like anything particularly momentous, but it was, in fact—being that it did, after all, enter a Canadian court’s view of the existence of sasquatch into the legal record.
Todd Standing, the plaintiff, claimed that the B.C. government was infringing on his Charter rights in ignoring his claims that he, a filmmaker from Golden, B.C., had seen the creature, and added that the ministry specifically was failing citizens by failing to protect the sasquatch, a mythical North
American ape-like creature that has long fascinated folklorists and the conspiracy-minded. He also sought a government statement that “Sasquatch is a hominoid or primate (Giganto Horridus Hominoid and/or Gigantopithecus) type of species, also known as a bigfoot, and is an indigenous mammal living within British Columbia” as part of his lawsuit.
The B.C. government’s lawyer said, in response, that “the plaintiff’s claim in this case is based on assumptions and speculation, lacks an air of reality, and the alleged statements of fact are ultimately incapable of proof.” (The statements of fact, it should be said clearly here, is that sasquatch is real.)...https://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/what-british-columbias-supreme-court-said-about-sasquatch/
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