“There are serious allegations a crime has been committed, and if government officials believe they can get away with hiding it by intimidating the media or myself, they are mistaken. We will get to the truth.”
Crown Prosecutors attempt to silence MPPs over Gulick Forest Products allegations
(QUEEN’S PARK) Randy Hillier, MPP for Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox and Addington, along with Renfrew-Nipissing-Pembroke MPP John Yakabuski, were served with notice of an intended lawsuit by the three Crown Prosecutors involved in the Gulick Forest Products case. The notice also names various media outlets, including the Ottawa Sun, which published stories on the case.
“This notice is an attempt to silence two elected officials, as well as our province’s free media,” said Hillier. “Needless to say, it has strengthened my resolve to find the truth of the matter in this case.”
“The allegations made against the Crown Prosecutors in this case are very serious, and if an injustice has been done, I don’t intend to let it stand.”
Hillier has written to the Attorney General, demanding clarification about whether the three Crown Prosecutors are acting on the Ministry’s behalf or on their own.
“This government has been mired in scandal for months,” stated Hillier. “There are serious allegations a crime has been committed, and if government officials believe they can get away with hiding it by intimidating the media or myself, they are mistaken. We will get to the truth.”
Randy Hillier, MPP Lanark Frontenac Lennox, is a co-founder of the Lanark Landowners Association, which was brought to life to address government imposition on the rights of private property owners, and to address the regressive regulatory impositions that government was bringing down upon farmers and business owners in rural Ontario.
In 2006, Randy resigned as President of the OLA in order to run as a candidate for the Progressive Conservatives. Randy was elected in the 2007 provincial election.
Randy a long-time resident of Lanark County, an electrician by trade and member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), continues to co-publish and edit rural Ontario’s successful magazine “The Landowner.”
