The BC SPCA is suing AAS and nine AAS Directors and website posters, for causing it to lose pound contracts all over BC. Yes, you read that right. It makes municipalities all over BC furious with it (the latest in a growing list is Kelowna) and then sues us for damages in an attempt to both silence us and recoup some of the money that its own actions and policies has lost it. AAS certainly informed the District of North Vancouver and the City of Coquitlam in 2000 about verifiable killing and lack of animal welfare by those SPCAs (along with dozens of private citizens), but the councillors who were not swayed by accounts of animal suffering were swayed by their staff's proof of SPCA financial wrongdoing. AAS did not cause the SPCA to lose contracts - SPCA actions did that. But with their lawsuit, the CEO and the Board of Directors hope to shoot the messenger, even though shooting the messenger has not ever worked. The SPCA is shooting itself. What hope is there of a viable SPCA when its Directors and management are so short-sighted?