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Ontario Food Safety and Quality Act, Draconian piece of legislation that threatens the safety of all Ontarians

Do we have the right to consume food of our choosing?



On Tuesday November 23, 2010 at 1:30 PM, Mark Tijssen will be back in an Ottawa courtroom at Provincial Court of Justice, 100 Constellation Crescent in Ottawa accompanied again by Michael Schmidt. Tijssen is the Carlsbad Springs man charged with four counts under the Ontario Food Safety and Quality Act for slaughtering a pig and sharing the meat with a friend in November of 2009. Schmidt is the Durham, Ontario dairy farmer, famous for having defeated 19 counts relating to the sale of raw milk last January. The common goals of food choice and freedom from oppressive laws that limit that choice have brought these two men together. Both are members of the Ontario Landowners Association which has a history of defending fundamental and property rights.

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This Tuesday’s hearing will air two motions. The first will be for the return of Tijssen’s home meat handling equipment ranging from Ziploc bags to a 65 year old fridge that belonged to his grandparents, seized without warrant in an after-dark armed raid last November. The second motion will request that, due to the complexity of this case, Tijssen’s trial scheduled for 14 to 17 February of next year be presided over by a Provincial Court judge. In addition to these motions, Tijssen has filed a Notice of Constitutional Question noting transgressions to multiple Sections of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Tijssen, a single father of two sons, notes that accepting an offer from the Crown to settle for a guilty plea and a $1000 fine would have been far less stressful for himself and the boys; however, even at their young ages, they support their father’s decision to fight injustice. “My boys realize that this affects things as simple as taking a home-made pepperoni stick to school in their lunches. To make matters worse, the Ontario Food Safety and Quality Act under which I am charged”, he says “is a draconian piece of legislation that threatens the safety of all Ontarians. If food choice ceases to exist in this province, there will be no alternative but to consume meat put on Styrofoam platters by a very few huge commercial meat packers – and recent history has shown that this can be a fatal choice.” Schmidt has been fighting for more than a decade, to get provincial regulators to acknowledge the right of his cow-share owners to consume raw milk that is readily available in Europe the United Kingdom and the United States. “The legal resources of the Province of Ontario are effectively unlimited” says Michael; “however, to the great credit of our judicial system, justice can prevail, even for a farmer armed solely with the truth. At some point in time, bureaucrats running our government departments will have to acknowledge that the residents of this province, and in fact this country, have the right to consume the food of their choosing.” Note: The hearing will take place on Tuesday, November 23rd 2010 at 1:30pm at the Provincial Court of Justice, 100 Constellation Crescent in Ottawa Seeking to preserve our real identities, traditions, security, prosperity and the fundamental principles of natural justice Ontariolandowners.ca If you require more background information, please contact the following: Deborah Madill, President, Ontario Landowners Association (OLA) E-mail: swmadill@vianet.ca


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Ontario Landowners Association -- Bio and Archives

The Ontario Landowners Association shall defend and promote the principal of strong local governments, democracy, and natural justice and represent the interests of the rural community.

For Rural Ontario to survive, Property Rights and judicial reform must be enshrined into law at all three levels of Government, these being; Federal, Provincial, and Municipal.

 

Rural Ontario is under systematic attack by government bureaucracy and false environmentalism.

 

The Ontario Landowners have and will continue to expose and meet these threats with determination and resolve in the court of public opinion.

 


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