This news article reveals that Doug Brimacombe is a former Langley Township Parks & Rec Director.
Brian Nelson owned and operated Mainland Animal Control, a dog control/disposal contracting company, based in Langley, where he had the contract to control and dispose of dogs for Langley before he was given the job of running the Vancouver SPCA's huge dog-control/disposal business to prevent him from expanding his business and getting some big contracts away from the Vancouver SPCA. The Vancouver SPCA not only bought Nelson's services to run their own dog disposal business, but got his contracts, and now it appears, to use his facility in Langley too.

Nelson still owns the facilities used by the current Langley SPCA, and is in fact its landlord, even though he left the SPCA in 2001 when Vancouver SPCA CEO Doug Hooper was fired.

Now the SPCA says they will close the Langley shelter because it is a sub-standard facility, yet Nelson maintains it is in acceptable condition. Is Nelson's attitude that of a typical "Slum-Lord" defending his digs, or is he trying to pave the way for a re-launch of his old Mainland Animal Control Pound business, by using the current Langley SPCA facility after the SPCA vacates it? Coincidentally, Nelson gave the SPCA notice, saying he had "other plans" for the property.

Langley residents had better speak up to their city about this possibility, and do it now. They should be telling their mayor and council that they want Langley to operate its own "municipal" pound like in North Vancouver and Coquitlam.

The SPCA may have been inadequate at best, but I don't believe that a return to contracting with Mainland Animal Control would serve the best interests of animal welfare in Langley.