Last year he won a long legal battle over his dismissal, but the government rejected his requests to return to work.
He is about to end up run over, his mother saves himHe had been suspended from duty for disobeying the order to kill two defenseless bear cubs orphaned following the culling of their mother. He is Bryce Casavan, a Canadian forest ranger and to this day he is still without that job. Last year he had won a long legal battle over his dismissal, but the government rejected his requests to return to work and the matter is back in court.
The story began in 2015, when officer Casavant and local firefighters were dispatched to the site where a female brown bear was reported to have entered a house in rural British Columbia, in the company of her two young. puppies. The upper floors of the rescuers decided to kill her mother, even if it meant making the little ones orphans.
The guard, however, defying orders to euthanize even the puppies, picked up the frightened babies and arranged for them to arrive at a shelter, the North Island Wildlife Recovery Center (and were later released into the wild). This decision put his work in jeopardy. Indeed, since then he has suffered an indefinite suspension from service.
Casavant never gave up and took the matter to court. The ruling of the Court of Appeal last June overturned Casavant's dismissal and confirmed the related issues not covered by the collective agreement between the Casavant union and the Ministry of the Environment. A decision that, according to animal rights experts, could help prevent unnecessary deaths of wild animals, as it has shown conservation officers can contest killing orders.
But his request for the reactivation of his badge and readmission to his uniform was rejected by the government. And so, now, in a new civil suit and affidavit filed in late February, Bryce Casavant - who has spent these five years battling her union and employer to get back to her job with the BC Conservation Officer Service - claims. that his dismissal is invalid.
“I have always maintained that a policeman cannot be ordered to kill - it is an illegal order. Police in public service has been my passion and career path of choice since my early twenties. It is shameful and frustrating to be constantly denied the possibility of immediately returning to my seat, ”she says.
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Casavant, in short, has not been formally fired but he cannot even start working as a forest ranger again nor obviously to receive a salary.
“Although the petition (to the Court of Appeal) has been presented, my sincere hope is that there is a diplomatic solution here and that the mistakes that have been made will simply be corrected,” he concluded.
Let's hope for Bryce!
Fonte: CBC
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