A law professor at the University of Ottawa says he would be surprised if the Supreme Court of Canada decides to hear the case of a British Columbia farm fighting to save its ostriches from being culled by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.

Paul Daly, the university’s research chair in administrative law and governance, said it has been “misreported” that the High Court granted a stay on the cull.

Daly said only one of the court’s judges granted an interim stay of the cull order for the flock at Universal Ostrich Farms in southeastern B.C. in order to give all nine members a chance to consider the farm’s bid to have the cull stayed and the case heard.

If the High Court declines to grant the farm’s application for leave to appeal, Daly said the bid to stay the cull would be rendered mo

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