Law360 Canada ( May 22, 2026, 9:34 AM EDT) -- Appeal by Village of Buena Vista (Village) from a decision dismissing its originating application. The application sought declarations that the bed and bank of Last Mountain Lake and the submerged portions of certain lakeside lots were owned by the Crown, together with orders redrawing the lot boundaries and directing the Registrar to issue new titles. The dispute arose because the registered owners asserted their lots extended into the lake, allowing them to rent boat slips. The Village asserted the lots were bounded by the bank and did not include the lakebed. The owners argued as preliminary issues that s. 21 of the Land Surveys Act (s. 21) did not apply because the original boundaries were not set with reference to a natural monument, that court ordered boundary determination was unavailable where all owners agreed on boundaries, and that the Village lacked standing. The judge assumed s. 21 applied but held that the court could only determine boundaries where owners disagreed, and further held the Village had no legal or other interest affected by the boundaries because it was neither an owner nor seeking ownership and could regulate boat slip rentals regardless of who owned the submerged areas. On appeal, the Village submitted the judge erred in interpreting s. 21 by wrongly treating agreement as requiring agreement among owners, misinterpreted TCRT Investments Inc. v Saskatchewan (TCRT), failed to apply proper statutory interpretation principles, erred in treating standing as lacking, and failed to address or properly reject public interest standing. The owners maintained the Village had no standing, that s. 21 was not a standing conferring provision, that public interest standing was never raised below, and that the judge correctly found the Village had no interest at stake....