In February 2001, when refusing to take the SPCA material off our web site after receiving bully and threatening letters from the SPCA's lawyers, I wrote that I would stop criticizing the SPCA when it got honest. I said I had owned a contracting company and I knew that it would take the SPCA several years to dismantle its pound contracting business and that I did not expect the SPCA to reform overnight. I was prepared to wait as long as I could see that the SPCA was honest at last.
In a conversation I had with Craig Daniell in January 2003, I repeated this and added that it knew it might take ten years to reform the SPCA and I repeated that I would understand difficulties with the union, and would not hamper his efforts as long as I could see that his efforts were honest.
And then Mr Daniell covered up the atrocities at the Burnaby SPCA and began seizing healthy animals and forcing victims to pay thousands to get their animals back alive, and making them sign gag orders or they wouldn't get them back, and too many shocking things to recount them all here.
All were examples of a frightening abuse of power, and once again, the SPCA was victimizing animals. SPCA policies, actions, evasions, P.R. and secrecy, all make it impossible for a reasonable person to trust it.