Former Mission mayor and 12-year MLA for the region, Randy Hawes, is being sued in B.C. Supreme Court, with plaintiff Summit Earthworks Inc. alleging Hawes defamed the company ahead of a public hearing, scuttling its bid to build a soil remediation and recycling facility.
Summit alleged in its May 21 notice of a civil claim that Hawes wrote a since-deleted Facebook post that said Summit has been “sanctioned in the past for illegal dumping of contaminated soil in the Fraser Valley.”
Summit said in its lawsuit that “the statement is, in its entirety and in its context, false and defamatory of Summit.”
It added: “Summit has not been sanctioned
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