by Randy Hiller, President, Lanark Landowners association
January 12, 2005
The next stage of the rural revolution is set for Wednesday January 5 in Tilsonburg, Ontario, spearheaded by Ontario tobacco Farmers. Tobacco farmers will be joined by groups from across Ontario including; The Lanark Landowners, the Ontario Cream Producers association, The Deer & Elk Farmers association, Ontario Property & Environmental Rights alliance, Grey (county) Democracy & Growth.
The Tobacco growers will blockade their marketing board, and will auction and conduct trade of unregulated tobacco bales, with the support of rural people from across Ontario.
The plight of Ontario tobacco farmers is the same hardship that strangles all rural landowners and farmers in Ontario. Incompetent governments and ignorant bureaucrats legislate and regulate the death of our communities, lifestyle, and marketplace with excessive intrusion and choking over- regulation that provides no value to society.
Eight hundred tobacco farms face imminent closure and the death of their industry, as governments deny people the freedom to choose. The means to this unjust end are; Provincial smoking bans, exorbitant taxation that encourages and promotes smuggling, and a tobacco cartel that limits competition and reduces farm incomes. Steve Peters stands back and inhales as another farm community goes up in smoke and exhales the words "I can’t do anything"
Three hundred Deer & Elk farmers face a similar managed death of their lifestyle and business. Urban governments have regulated their marketplace out of existence. and deny these farmers the opportunity to sell & harvest their farm-raised animals. MNR, Dave Ramsay’s environmental ethics and adoration of wildlife is the pretext that justifies unethical treatment and injustice to farmers
One hundred cream farmers are denied the opportunity to sell their cream as collusion between deceptive marketing boards with bureaucratic entanglements drain them of profits through legal wrangling.
Thousands of cattle farmers have faced two years of bankruptcy because the Ontario government has regulated 100 abattoir out of existence: and with them the ability to kill and process our cattle. Government’s hands destroy another marketplace and disguise their agenda with a cloak of BSE.
Every rural business is drowning in regulatory costs with the "safe drinking water act". academic politicians and cowardly bureaucrat’s use the Walkerton tragedy to justify the foreclosure of rural Ontario.
Every rural landowner must defend against criminal government deception. The legislated theft of private property with greenbelt legislation and a sea of land-use designations deny private landowners the use, enjoyment, and ownership of private land, without compensation "for the public good".
The united landowners have delivered a message to all governments that property rights and ownership must be entrenched in our constitution with legislation. and rural people will no longer tolerate the removal of their marketplace, and demand the political noose that tightens around our neck be cut loose. Failure to do so will result in escalating civil disobedience and non-compliance.
The tobacco board is the first step of the Rural Revolution into Southern Ontario. Others actions that disrupt the trade and traffic of Urban Ontario’s commerce will soon follow.
Randy Hillier
President, Lanark Landowners association
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