Ontario Superior Court Justice Timothy Minnema has found many of the enforcement powers held by the OSPCA are unconstitutional. He has given the government a year to rewrite laws to remedy the situation. Jeffrey Bogaerts, a paralegal from Perth launched the constitutional challenge five years ago after helping several animal owners who were being investigated by the society including a woman whose pet dog was seized. Justice Minnema found that Ontario was wrong to grant police powers to the OSPCA without also imposing reasonable standards of transparency and accountability. OSPCA is a private charity that receives millions of taxpayer dollars as well as private donations. In recent years its purposes have been questioned. Marineland sued the OSPAC in 2017 claiming it was trying to put the zoo and aquarium out of business to please animal rights groups and raise money. OSPAC has had police powers since it was created in 1919. Marineland says malicious OSPCA was out to destroy it