Lee Turner, a civil litigation lawyer, testifies about his role as co-counsel in the Federal Court judicial review concerning the CFIA’s culling order at Universal Ostrich Farm. He describes the testing process, the hybrid strain findings, expert evidence presented to the court, and the difficulty of challenging CFIA decisions under the Health of Animals Act. His testimony emphasizes judicial deference to administrative policy, the refusal to permit further testing despite emerging evidence, and his view that legislative reform is needed to impose evidentiary guardrails and greater accountability in disease-response decisions affecting farmers.
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