Recovery from disaster is a long process, as this Museum of Anthropology exhibition demonstrates. Open until Sept. 19. “This has all the hallmarks of a SLAPP suit,” said Ezra Morse, a 41-year-old software engineer and defendant in the case. “Developers only have to throw a few thousand dollars at trying to get advocates to shut up.” SLAPP suits — Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation — are what the new legislation aims to prevent. Often, they’re filed by large groups with deep financial pockets and a wealth of legal resources against engaged citizens and activists who lack both. Morse and the Qualicum Nature Preservation Society, a 148-member organization he co-founded in 2020 and serves as president of, are named in a civil claim filed in May by Richard Todsen, Linda Todsen and Todsen Design & Construction Ltd.