A Nova Scotia man who intentionally violated the province’s ban on entering the woods says he plans to fight his $28,000 fine.

Jeffrey Evely, a veteran and former candidate for the People’s Party of Canada, recorded a video over the weekend of him first going to the Department of Natural Resources in Coxheath, N.S., and informing officers he was going into the woods to protest the ban.

“I want to challenge this order in court, and the only way to do that is to get the fine,” Jeffrey Evely says in the video. “So, I’m not trying to make trouble for you guys, I just want a piece of (Premier) Tim Houston and I want to be as accommodating and nice as I can be.”

One of the officers asked him not to enter the woods, but he followed through with his plan.

When he left the forest, he was handed

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