As we see in the excerpt/link below, the suggestion of the B.C. Government paying as a result of negligence, failure to mitigate risk. This is very similar to what the SLI shareholders may be able to do to the B.C. Government as well, whereas the BCSC is a provincial Crown agency. The Government has been notified, importantly the Justice Ministers, of our circumstance for a long time with no movement to mitigate. The B.C. Government is one to name in a class action law suit, because they have the money and were responsible for protecting investors. If the B.C. Government is successfully sued, then sadly enough, it will be the tax payers,of course the little guys of B.C. that will foot the bill. Its not right that an elected government put its citizens at such blatant risk. This is only the begining, there will be more and more action taken against provincial and federal government here in Canada.

In 2011, a report by the forest safety ombudsman, prompted by the tree planters' case, found the B.C. government was failing to protect workers in the province's silviculture industry.

Ombudsman Roger Harris said there was significant evidence that there were unacceptable, substandard and unsafe conditions in the workplace, and no significant government action was taken to stop the operations.

Jim Sinclair, president of the B.C. Federation of Labour, says the provincial government should pay the tree planters.

"The provincial government failed to enforce the rules and take care of these people and now they need to step up to the plate, apologize to these workers for what happened in B.C. and pay the money that's owed," said Sinclair.

Sinclair said the government had contracted Khaira Enterprises to work for the province, and it doesn't take much imagination to see they were working for all British Columbians.

"They've hung in and they now deserve to be paid. The small amount of money that they are owed as a result of this decision, the government needs to pay the money and come clean."

http://news.ca.msn.com/top-stories/55-tree-planters-win-dollar700k-over-slave-like-discrimination-in-bc

Also, the TPP may allow for more tax dollars be spent/paid on lawsuits against our governments, in which Canadian Taxpayers also foot these bills. People are waking up, and more need to do so at this time and understand the game.

"Community-led public policy: Like NAFTA, the TPP will include an investor rights chapter and investor–state dispute process that lets companies sue governments in secret tribunals when public policies get in the way of profits. The polices or decisions can be legal and fair (i.e. they treat national and foreign firms identically), or designed to effectively protect the environment or public health, and still face corporate lawsuits demanding hundreds of millions, and sometimes billions of dollars in compensation. Canada has lost or settled five such claims under NAFTA costing the public over $160 million. Leaked texts show the TPP will create even more opportunities than in NAFTA for corporations to challenge public decisions. This powerful tool of corporate rule, designed to undermine democracy, is reason enough to stop the TPP."

http://www.canadians.org/expose-tpp