The Town of White City isn’t giving up its fight to expand its boundaries.

The Saskatchewan Court of Appeal granted the Town leave to appeal the Boundary Alteration decision issued by the Saskatchewan Municipal Board (SMB) Municipal Boundary Committee (MBC) in January 2023.

The decision saw the committee deny the Town’s request to expand its boundaries and amalgamate it with other subdivisions in the RM of Edenworld.

According to the town, the Court of Appeal decision granted leave to appeal based on the following grounds:

• the committee erred by failing to provide adequate reasons;
• the committee erred by ignoring, failing to consider, or misapprehending relevant evidence;
• the committee erred by failing to apply the proper principles and legal test and by failing to consider the required factors from s. 18(4) of the MBA, under which a proposed annexation is to be evaluated and determined; and
• the committee erred by basing its decision on irrelevant or improper considerations.

Mayor Brian Fergusson said the Town believes the committee made a mistake with their decision.

“Our application for leave to appeal was based on a full review of the reasons provided by the MBC and on what we consider to be insufficient analysis and reasoning in support of the Committee’s conclusions,” he said. “Ultimately, it is the Town’s position that the MBC made several errors of law in reaching its decision, and therefore an appeal before the Court of Appeals was appropriate.”

The town said that it expects its hearing before the Saskatchewan Court of Appeals to be heard this fall.