For all of British Columbia’s environmentalist tendencies, it has struggled to preserve one of its most endangered species: the northern spotted owl. The stable part of that population, a total of 30 members, lives in a captive breeding program in Langley. Only three are now known to be living in the wild.

The owls are low on the priority list of our otherwise aggressive Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault, who was recently found by a federal court judge to have broken the law by failing to protect them with haste.