Law360 Canada ( July 10, 2018, 10:36 AM EDT) -- Appeal by the plaintiff, Greengen, from an order staying its civil claim against the Province pending disposition of a parallel judicial review proceeding. In 2005, the plaintiff, a developer of sustainable hydropower projects, sought a water licence and land tenure to support a particular project located within the traditional territory of the Squamish Nation. In 2007, the Province and the Squamish First Nation reached a land use agreement that involved, among other things, the Province’s agreement not to issue new Crown land tenures within certain protected cultural sites. In 2009, the Province denied the approvals sought by the plaintiff, citing the land use agreement and concerns of the project’s impact on certain Aboriginal rights and spiritual bathing practices. In 2016, the plaintiff sought judicial review of the Province’s refusal to grant the water licence and land tenure, and an Environmental Appeal Board decision affirming denial of the water licence. Two months later, the plaintiff filed a notice of civil claim against the Province and Squamish Nation that alleged misfeasance in public office. The chambers judge found that the plaintiff’s claim was an abuse of process as an impermissible collateral attack on the governmental decisions at issue. The judge ordered a stay of the action pending completion of the judicial review proceeding. The plaintiff appealed....