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A developer who had antecedently sued the City of Winnipeg implicit claims that its employees slowed the advancement of a 1,900-unit residential improvement successful Fort Garry has filed an entreaty with the Supreme Court of Canada.
In April, a Manitoba entreaty justice said grounds fell abbreviated of proving 'misfeasance successful nationalist office'
CBC News
· Posted: Jun 18, 2025 12:25 AM EDT | Last Updated: 4 hours ago
A developer who had antecedently sued the City of Winnipeg implicit claims that its employees slowed the advancement of a residential improvement successful Fort Garry has filed an entreaty with the Supreme Court of Canada.
In July 2023, a Court of King's Bench justice decided that 2 metropolis planners intentionally stalled improvement of the erstwhile Parker lands, a 19-hectare parcel that Andrew Marquess of Gem Equities had planned to crook into a 1,900-unit improvement called Fulton Grove.
The metropolis was ordered to wage Marquess $5 million.
The metropolis filed an appeal. In April, a Manitoba Court of Appeal justice decided that grounds presented astatine proceedings fell abbreviated of proving the metropolis planners were misfeasance successful nationalist office, and reversed the archetypal decision.
The determination besides stated that determination was "nothing nefarious" astir metropolis planners gathering with River Heights-Fort Garry Coun. John Orlikow to springiness and person feedback connected the project.
Now the developer hopes to reverse that decision.
On Monday, the developer's lawyers filed a 242-page entreaty papers to the Supreme Court, that the metropolis planners were "acting deliberately and unlawfully successful an effort to dilatory down oregon thwart the Plaintiffs' improvement with disregard for the harm their actions were causing the Plaintiffs."
This papers reaffirming claims Marquess made successful his 2018 connection of assertion and hearings successful 2021.
The metropolis had argued that determination was nary grounds that its employees were unlawfully and deliberately trying to dilatory down the improvement of the land, which Marquess had acquired successful a 2009 swap with the metropolis for onshore helium owned successful Fort Rouge.
CBC News has reached retired to the City of Winnipeg, but did not perceive backmost anterior to publication.
With files from Bartley Kives and Santiago Arias Orozco
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