Long ago, Nicholas Read made a lot of serious accusations against the SPCA in the Vancouver Sun, and capped it by writing that the SPCA does not deny what he wrote.

Of course not, the Vancouver Sun has lawyers and deep pockets, and it could prove that the statements were true. More and more newspapers are forthrightly questioning the SPCA's image and comparing it to the facts. Has the SPCA threatened even one of them? Not that we have heard.

The CEO, Craig Daniell, and the President of the Board, Mary Lou Troman, thought that AAS was easy game, that a writ would send us scurrying, begging for mercy. AAS made up its mind long ago, that nothing was going to stop it from telling the truth about the animal welfare and prevention of cruelty to animals businesses in this province. We knew ten years ago that only by forcing the SPCA out of the animal control/disposal businesses and into real animal welfare, were we speaking for more than the lucky animals that came to us rather than to an SPCA.

We have a mountain of corroborating evidence, supplied by the SPCA itself for fifty years, for every allegation of wrongdoing we publish. The hard task is deciding what evidence to choose.