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I can find no representation whatsoever in that letter. For the reasons to which I have already referred, in my view, the building did comply with the zoning regulations in that it was a completely enclosed building for light industrial use in an M.1 area. If Matas J.A. was of the opinion that the letter was in error in its failure to take account of the provisions of s. 7.9 of the Planning Scheme By-law 1487, then it must be remembered that the letter is dated December 22, 1969, after the respondent had acquired the lands and commenced its building, and that to determine whether a use was within the prohibition in s. 7.9 of the said by-law required an exercise in judgment quite beyond the ordinary scope of a building inspector. There is, in fact, evidence that a provincial health inspector had informed members of the Council that all over the province slaughter-houses existed right in the middle of towns without any nuisance whatsoever and it is difficult to understand how, in the light of that statement from a provincial inspector, a municipal building inspector can be required to exercise a judgment that this building would, unlike others in the province, constitute such a nuisance as would bring it within the prohibition of the by-law. I am of the opinion that no liability of the town could be based on this slight ground.
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