The operators of the former Sasquatch Inn and the Moose Flats Lodge and Camp in B.C.’s oilpatch owe millions in unpaid sales tax, unremitted employee deductions and corporate tax, according to two petitions filed in B.C. Supreme Court.

The attorney general of Canada filed the petitions to ask the court to determine the real estate holdings of the operators of those work camps, the Buffalo Inn and a second numbered company.

Both companies are owned by the same couple, Melody and Richard Magaton, and the petitions say they own eight parcels of land in the Peace River District.

Federal authorities want those lands and any others the companies own to be sold to pay off the owners’ various tax debts from between 2005 and 2021, according to the petitions.

The Magatons have been directors of

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