“他对卑诗省被告对他的行为的特征表示异议，以此作为规避法定居住要求的虐待行为”

作为一种补救措施，罗伊（Roy）在2024年2月提议增加了一个名叫本杰明·斯科特（Benjamin Scott）的卑诗省居民。沃伦（Warren）认为，罗伊（Roy）在卑诗省缺乏地位不足以使索赔无效，并接受了斯科特（Scott）作为代表原告。

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

法官拒绝驳回试图在不列颠哥伦比亚省三个主要机场取消机场改善费用的主张。

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

联邦法院法官对机场的辩论做出了裁决，要求提出索赔。

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

该索赔于2023年提出，旨在消除乘客在温哥华，维多利亚州和乔治王子机场支付的费用。

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.

此案发生在法院驳回美国对冲基金的一项企图向机场征收无缴税的集体诉讼的企图。对冲基金是由1978年税务案件引起的索赔的受让人，他认为机场的改善费实际上是联邦政府未能收取的税款。

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.

对冲基金的主张由于缺乏地位而被驳回，因为其成员都不是不列颠哥伦比亚省的居民。但是，法官允许对该声称进行修改，以增加不列颠哥伦比亚省的居民为代表原告。

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.

法官还决定将修正案回到初始索赔之日。尽管机场的辩论说这将属于滥用流程，但还是做出了这一决定。

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

联邦法院法官凯瑟琳·沃伦（Catherine Warren）在3月19日的裁决中说，她没有说服索赔被提出。

"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.

沃伦在她的决定中部分地说：“卑诗省的被告将罗伊先生的行为描述为遵守法定居留权要求的滥用努力，他断言他只是试图解决诉状中的缺陷。”

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

作为一种补救措施，罗伊（Roy）在2024年2月提议增加一位名叫本杰明·斯科特（Benjamin Scott）的不列颠哥伦比亚省居民为代表原告。

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.

沃伦（Warren）认为，罗伊（Roy）在不列颠哥伦比亚省缺乏地位不足以使索赔无效，并接受了斯科特（Scott）作为代表原告。

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.

她说，法院具有回顾命令的固有管辖权，并将斯科特（Scott）作为原告添加到提起索赔之日。

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.

三名被告辩称，这样的命令将构成滥用程序。他们争辩说，罗伊（Roy）通过以象征性的原告作为占位符开始索赔并采取措施“避免”居住要求，从而从事“论坛购物”。

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

但是，沃伦（Warren）裁定，他们“远远不远”，以驳回罗伊的行动。

"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."

沃伦写道：“罗伊先生唯一可能受到批评的行为是以他的名义开始索赔的开始。 “我得出的结论是，在这种情况下，将斯科特先生添加以治愈这种缺陷将是公正和公平的。”

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.

在这三个不列颠哥伦比亚省的机场中，乔治王子为每位起飞乘客的最高机场改善费用为35美元。维多利亚和温哥华每人收取25美元。

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

但是，温哥华仅在不列颠哥伦比亚省或育空地区飞行的乘客收取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，当YVR启动其对乘客的税收版本时，它声称这是支付终端扩展的临时措施。