Original Illegal Orders In Council That Restricted Free Trade Of Fresh Water.
The documents set out below are the series of Orders In Council made by the British Columbia Government back in 1991 that prevented anyone from obtaining a license to extract water from BC rivers and streams if that water was exported by marine transport vessels.
So, you could export water by jug, tanker truck, rail car, pipeline, but not by a marine transport vessel which was the method proposed to be used by Sun Belt Water Inc. in its joint venture with Snowcap Waters Ltd.
Those orders were eventually replaced by the Water Protection Act, a statute that prohibited the export of water "unless the person ... removes the water in containers of 20 litres" which is about 5 gallons.
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This measure was intended to prevent trade in fresh water and was also illegal.
The first Order in Council No. 331 was a complete fraud because the Executive Council did not consent to the making of the order despite the explicit wording that says it did.
We know this because there is sworn evidence by a British Columbia government employee that despite an extensive search of the records they could find no document that showed the Executive Council had a meeting where the order was approved. Also it was signed on the bottom by British Columbia Premier, Bill Vander Zalm, and British Columbia Environment Minister, Cliff Serwa, on March 15, 1991, which was a Friday and on the top by the Queen's representative in British Columbia, Lieutenant Governor David Lam, on March 18, 1991, which was a Monday. At the time, cabinet met on Wednesdays.
So the reasonable conclusion is that British Columbia Premier, Bill Vander Zalm and British Columbia Environment Minister, Cliff Serwa, and the Queen's representative in British Columbia, Lieutenant Governor David Lam, were all lying when they signed an order stating that the Order was made with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of British Columbia (which is another name for the provincial cabinet), when there was no such meeting where consent could have been given.
The next document, Order in Council No 922, continues with the illegal Order No. 331 and is very interesting because it is signed by the Provincial Administrator who, by law, signs documents when the Lieutenant Governor is not available to sign them.
By law, the Administrator is the Chief Justice of the Province who, in this case, was Allan McEachern, a notoriously crooked Chief Justice of British Columbia who caused all kinds of mischief while he was running a criminal organization in the courts. So, in this case, the Chief Justice joined in a criminal conspiracy by signing a document that continued what he must have known was an illegal order in council. This is hardly surprising when one understands more about Chief Justice McEachern and the nature of the criminal racket he was operating.
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The remaining Orders in Council were consecutive continuations of Order In Council No. 331 until the Water Protection Act became law in 1996.