The Supreme Court of Canada has dismissed an application from a B.C. ostrich farm to hear an appeal to save its flock.

The court unanimously dismissed the applicant’s motion for new evidence and dismissed the farm owner’s appeal, finding that the Stamping-Out Policy, the Notice to Dispose and the Exemption Denial were all reasonable in accordance with the applicable case law.

“The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) will be moving forward to complete depopulation and disposal measures as authorized by the Health of Animals Act and guided by the stamping out policy for highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI),” the CFIA said in a statement on Thursday morning.

The Universal Ostrich Farm, in Edgewood, B.C., challenged the Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s (CFIA) order to cull th

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