Provincial legislation attempting to protect housing development from legal challenge found to be unconstitutional


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Last month, the BC Court of Appeal released its decision in Kitsilano Coalition for Children & Family Safety Society v. British Columbia (Attorney General), 2024 BCCA 423, examining and interpreting new provincial legislation. The legislation had been enacted to support the completion of a housing development, but was challenged as unconstitutional, a view that was upheld by the Court of Appeal in a decision released December 23, 2024. UBCM has obtained a legal analysis by Stewart McDannold Stuart on the Court of Appeal’s decision.