By Randy Hillier
Friday, June 2, 2006(LaNaRK, 26 May, 2006) The Ontario Landowners association (OLa) has formed a Political action Committee to further the organization's goal of changing legislation that infringes on the property rights of rural landowners. The committee is comprised of James Mac Master, Jack Mac Laren and Merle Bowes.
The OLa — with fifteen thousand family memberships in thirty rural Ontario counties — created the committee to complement their traditional methods of affecting change. The committee will be focusing its attention on three pieces of legislation that the OLa has already targeted: The Clean Water act; The Provincial Policy Statement on Land Use; and the legislation that forced rural municipalities to amalgamate.
Over the next few months, the committee intends to meet with representatives of all provincial political parties to outline the OLa's concerns with the legislation and to deliver the message to individual candidates that Landowner support in the upcoming provincial election will be contingent upon constructive action. The OLa is utterly confident in its ability to effect political change either through the existing political parties or through creating new alternatives. It is no coincidence that Conservatives were elected in every riding which had a County Landowner association in the last federal election, and ridings that were traditional Liberal strongholds crumbled.
The OLa believes that all political parties have the responsibility to review and change the legislation, because, to some extent all parties have had a hand in developing, supporting or implementing the various acts and regulations that the OLa has targeted.
Randy Hillier, President, Ontario Landowners association
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