03/20/2026
**Landmark judgement** Supreme Court slapped CC for wasting money for ego battle!!
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Supreme Court has overturned CC decision to suspend ACA. It has also ordered that no action can be taken against BC cricket. It has strictly asked Cricket Canada to immediately set a date for SGM.
In summary, the Court orders that:
a) CCanada shall hold the SGM that was requisitioned on December 14,
2025, to take place within 21 days of these reasons, or as otherwise
agreed by the parties;
b) The CCanada directors and board shall strictly comply with all CCanada
bylaws and the CNCAct with respect to the SGM, including notice, voting,
and conduct;
c) The SGM will be chaired by an independent chair. The petitioner members propose Brett Kagetsu, head of Vancouver Gowling’s Business
Department, to serve. The respondents do not oppose the appointment of
an independent chair or, specifically, the appointment of Mr Kagetsu. Mr
Kagetsu is apparently willing to serve.
The Court so orders;
d) At the SGM, the independent chair will determine any dispute that may
arise at the SGM in relation to the interpretation of the bylaws and the
CNCAct, such that any such disputes need not be determined in advance
by this Court;
e) All present members, including, specifically, AlbertaCA and WestCA, shall
be permitted to vote at the SGM;
f) The CCanada directors and board and, specifically, its Executive
Committee shall only act in the ordinary course of business until the SGM
takes place, with no unilateral actions without necessary board approval,
in strict adherence to the bylaws and the CNCAct. Specifically, the
CCanada directors may not vote to suspend, remove, replace any West Coast Cricket Organization
current member until after the SGM, and then only in strict adherence to
the bylaws and the CNCAct.
The machinations and squabbles before the Court appear to be driven at
least in part by the egos and ambitions of certain named individuals. This litigation
would perhaps be fine if those individuals were financing this squabble out of their
own pockets. But all of the parties to this petition are charitable organisations,2
operating on donations, player fees, and taxpayer dollars, which funds are not being
used to promote cricket in Canada, but instead are used to hire eight lawyers
(including the King’s Counsel and three Bay Street lawyers who represent CCanada)
to generate four thick binders of materials, all at great cost.
[98] In the circumstances, the Court was inclined to stop the bleeding by
appointing a receiver over CCanada: it did not in the end, as such relief was not
sought in the petition. If these disputes and dysfunctions continue after this order, it may well be appropriate to appoint a receiver over that institution and perhaps over some or all of the petitioner organisations, to take those organisations out of the
hands of their individual directors and operatives, and to return those organisation to their mission!!
