Salmon activist to be deported from Canada

Anti-fish farm activist Don Staniford is to be deported to Britain days after the conclusion of a 20-day defamation case in B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver.

Staniford is fighting a defamation suit launched by Mainstream Canada, the province’s second largest salmon farming company.

“Canadian Border Services Agency has taken a very heavy-handed approach,” said Staniford, a British citizen, who does not dispute that he has been living in Canada illegally since his visa expired in 2010. Staniford suspects that the deportation order, issued on the first day of the Mainstream court case, is connected to his vocal anti-fish farm stance. He has turned over his passport and is due to be escorted out of Canada Feb. 29.

In the meantime, Staniford, who worked largely out of northern Vancouver Island, has planned at least one speaking engagement after the court case ends. He hopes that an injunction, requested by Mainstream lawyers, does not silence him.

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