Corporate duties and obligations
9 (1) The society must

(4) Within 14 days after the annual general meeting, the society must file with the Registrar of Companies

(a) in respect of the society and each of its branches, audited financial statements, each in the form of a balance sheet containing general particulars of assets and liabilities, and a statement of income and expenditure.....

At the BC SPCA Annual General Meeting in 2002, Treasurer Randy Reynolds stated that the BC SPCA had never filed audited statements.

Entreaties to government to make the SPCA obey the law are ignored.

Minister John van Dongen is responsible for the SPCA legislation and to the public. Where is his oversight of the B.C. SPCA's financial situation?

Graham Currie, spokesman for the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries, said the government does not intend to intervene in the affairs of the B.C. SPCA, a private organization.

He said the Society has filed the paperwork required under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act.

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