By Randy Hillier
Friday, March 3, 2006The Founding Convention of the Ontario Landowners association (OLa) took place in Belleville on Saturday, February 25th.
One hundred and forty delegates representing 24 counties gathered in the Legion Hall to ratify the constitution of the organization which, scarcely three years ago, had erupted on to the scene as a single county entity, The Lanark Landowners association, with the basic goal of preserving and protecting the rights of property owners.
"Today's rural society is being choked to death by increasing legislation and regulation," said acclaimed OLa President Randy Hillier. "This is dramatically true in rural Ontario, indeed, in rural Canada. Due partly to amalgamation rural residents face three-tiered regulatory onslaughts constructed, delivered and supervised by urban-centric institutions and individuals.
"Our constitution is based on the premise of upholding our rural identity, traditions, security and prosperity, all of which depend on the recognition of individual property rights. To that end we are charging the Province of Ontario to enact appropriate legislation and the Federal Government of Canada to enshrine such rights within the Canadian Constitution.
"Until our just demands are satisfied, the OLa will work to exercise its right to defend and promote the cause of individual property rights within its jurisdiction by all legal and reasonable means."
" Today we have ten accredited associations representing twenty-four counties and, as I speak, there are more ready to stand up and be counted in the fight to establish true democracy and put power back into the hands of the people."
Randy Hillier, President, Ontario Landowners association
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