Glenn Black of
Providence Bay on Manitoulin Island has posed nine questions to the British
Columbia chicken marketing board in connection with the use of chicken manure
to discourage street people.
He basically asks
if their members were involved and what the board is doing to keep chicken
manure from being used as a weapon to drive homeless people out of certain
areas.
Black
references CBC reporting that chicken
manure was used by municipal employees in Surrey B.C. in
August, 2009, and again in Abbotsford B..C
in June, 2013, to contaminate
municipal lands, residential tents, and personal property used by homeless
persons for encampments.
One of the
seven questions Black is asking the board is “what systems or steps has your organization
historically taken so as to audit or ensure that chicken manure is not used as
a weapon against homeless people?
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