No one can fault the owners of Universal Ostrich Farms Inc. for challenging the order to cull their remaining flock following an outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza that killed 69 birds late last year.

We can appreciate their tenacity in pursuing the case all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada, pulling every legal, social media and emotional string they could find. We can empathize with their grief after Canada’s highest court refused to intervene and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency culled the remaining 314 birds.

It is a life-changing trauma.

The Edgewood, B.C.-based farm owners are now considering next steps and vowing to “change Canada,” ostensibly to protect other farmers from what they’ve characterized as government overreach by the CFIA.

However, the next steps

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