“他對卑詩省被告對他的行為的特徵表示異議，以此作為規避法定居住要求的虐待行為”

作為一種補救措施，羅伊（Roy）在2024年2月提議增加了一個名叫本傑明·斯科特（Benjamin Scott）的卑詩省居民。沃倫（Warren）認為，羅伊（Roy）在卑詩省缺乏地位不足以使索賠無效，並接受了斯科特（Scott）作為代表原告。

A judge has refused to dismiss a claim that seeks to eliminate airport improvement fees at three major British Columbia airports.

法官拒絕駁回試圖在不列顛哥倫比亞省三個主要機場取消機場改善費用的主張。

The Federal Court judge made the decision in response to arguments from the airports that the claim should be struck out.

聯邦法院法官對機場的辯論做出了裁決，要求提出索賠。

The claim, which was filed in 2023, aims to eliminate the fees that passengers pay at Vancouver, Victoria and Prince George airports.

該索賠於2023年提出，旨在消除乘客在溫哥華，維多利亞州和喬治王子機場支付的費用。

The case arose after the court rejected an attempt by a U.S. hedge fund to launch a class action lawsuit against the airports to collect unpaid taxes. The hedge fund, which is the assignee of claims arising from a 1978 tax case, had argued that the airports' improvement fees were actually taxes that the federal government failed to collect.

此案發生在法院駁回美國對沖基金的一項企圖向機場徵收無繳稅的集體訴訟的企圖。對沖基金是由1978年稅務案件引起的索賠的受讓人，他認為機場的改善費實際上是聯邦政府未能收取的稅款。

The hedge fund's claim was dismissed due to a lack of standing, as none of its members were residents of British Columbia. However, the judge permitted the claim to be amended to add a British Columbia resident as a representative plaintiff.

對沖基金的主張由於缺乏地位而被駁回，因為其成員都不是不列顛哥倫比亞省的居民。但是，法官允許對該聲稱進行修改，以增加不列顛哥倫比亞省的居民為代表原告。

The judge also decided to backdate the amendment to the date of the initial claim. This decision was made despite arguments from the airports that it would amount to an abuse of process.

法官還決定將修正案回到初始索賠之日。儘管機場的辯論說這將屬於濫用流程，但還是做出了這一決定。

In her March 19 decision, Federal Court Judge Catherine Warren said she is not persuaded that the claim should be struck out.

聯邦法院法官凱瑟琳·沃倫（Catherine Warren）在3月19日的裁決中說，她沒有說服索賠被提出。

"The BC defendants characterize Mr. Roy’s conduct as an abusive effort to circumvent the statutory residency requirement, and he asserts that he is merely attempting to address a defect in his pleadings," said Warren, in part, in her decision.

沃倫在她的決定中部分地說：“卑詩省的被告將羅伊先生的行為描述為遵守法定居留權要求的濫用努力，他斷言他只是試圖解決訴狀中的缺陷。”

As a remedy, in February 2024, Roy proposed the addition of a British Columbia resident named Benjamin Scott as a representative plaintiff.

作為一種補救措施，羅伊（Roy）在2024年2月提議增加一位名叫本傑明·斯科特（Benjamin Scott）的不列顛哥倫比亞省居民為代表原告。

Warren decided that Roy’s lack of standing in British Columbia was not enough to nullify the claim and accepted the addition of Scott as the representative plaintiff.

沃倫（Warren）認為，羅伊（Roy）在不列顛哥倫比亞省缺乏地位不足以使索賠無效，並接受了斯科特（Scott）作為代表原告。

She said the court has the inherent jurisdiction to backdate an order and add Scott as a plaintiff to the date the claim was initiated.

她說，法院具有回顧命令的固有管轄權，並將斯科特（Scott）作為原告添加到提起索賠之日。

The three defendants argued that such an order would constitute an abuse of process. They contended that Roy engaged in "forum shopping" by commencing the claim with a token plaintiff as a placeholder and taking steps to "circumvent" the residency requirement.

三名被告辯稱，這樣的命令將構成濫用程序。他們爭辯說，羅伊（Roy）通過以像徵性的原告作為佔位符開始索賠並採取措施“避免”居住要求，從而從事“論壇購物”。

However, Warren ruled that they fell "far short" of the high threshold to dismiss Roy’s action.

但是，沃倫（Warren）裁定，他們“遠遠不遠”，以駁回羅伊的行動。

"The only conduct on the part of Mr. Roy that could potentially be criticized was the commencement of the claim in his name despite the express language of (the residency requirement of the Class Proceedings Act)," wrote Warren. "I have concluded that it would be just and equitable in this case to add Mr. Scott to cure that defect."

沃倫寫道：“羅伊先生唯一可能受到批評的行為是以他的名義開始索賠的開始。 “我得出的結論是，在這種情況下，將斯科特先生添加以治愈這種缺陷將是公正和公平的。 ”

Of the three British Columbia airports, Prince George charges the highest airport improvement fee at $35 for each originating departing passenger. Victoria and Vancouver charge $25 each.

在這三個不列顛哥倫比亞省的機場中，喬治王子為每位起飛乘客的最高機場改善費用為35美元。維多利亞和溫哥華每人收取25美元。

Vancouver, however, charges $5 for passengers flying only in British Columbia or Yukon.

但是，溫哥華僅在不列顛哥倫比亞省或育空地區飛行的乘客收取5美元。

When YVR launched its version of the tax on passengers in 1993, it claimed it was a temporary measure to pay for terminal expansion.

1993年，當YVR啟動其對乘客的稅收版本時，它聲稱這是支付終端擴展的臨時措施。