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OLA Releases Five Outrageous Examples of Government infringing on property rights



Governments at all levels are infringing on the rights of citizens to own and enjoy their own property. Unfortunately, it’s a situation that’s getting worse. Here from the Ontario Landowners Association are five examples of citizens who are fighting back!

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Summer Seminar Squashed

Marta and Lech Jaworski, who immigrated to this country from Poland, are in hot water with local government officials because they wanted to help their son Peter. They allowed Peter to host the Liberty Summer Seminar on their rural property near Orono, Ontario. The LSS is non-profit event that’s designed to help students learn and appreciate the concept of liberty. It’s a good thing. But on August 12, the Jaworskis’ were served with a summons. Local officials, acting on an anonymous complaint, claimed they had “allowed the use of land in an agricultural zone for a use other than a permitted residential use.” If convicted, the Jaworskis face a fine of up to $50,000. “Our family escaped Poland for fear of reprisals in 1984 after my mom and dad handed out pro-democracy and pro-freedom literature from under my baby carriage,” said Peter. “It’s ironic and upsetting that they may now be facing charges in Canada for allowing me to host an event in support of those very same principles.”

Butchering Common sense

Mark Tijssen, a major in the Canadian Forces, grew up on a farm. He knows how to butcher livestock. In November 2009, he and a friend bought a pig, intending to share it. But a neighbour reported to the government that Tijssen was running an unlicensed slaughterhouse on his property. It’s legal to butcher your own pig, but under an obscure law, letting someone else take home-butchered meat off your property is not. The Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) staked out Tijssen’s home for five full days, until Tijssen’s friend was seen leaving the property with a box of pork. Later the MNR raided Tijssen’s home and carried off 14 articles of butchering equipment .Tijssen now stands charged with four offences and theoretically faces penalties of up to $100,000. But Tijssen refuses to plead guilty and will be tried in February.

For the love of Peat

George Eng is facing a fine of up to $10,000 or three months in jail. Did he rob or assault somebody? No. His crime was he dug up peat on his own property. Eng happens to be a peat farmer. Digging peat is his livelihood. That’s why his family purchased a peat property; that’s why his family has been investing in the business for the past 50 years. Yet recently the McGuinty Liberal government decreed that their land is a “significant wetlands". That means it’s suddenly illegal for Eng, or for the dozens of other families in the area, to dig peat. It also means they can’t earn a living. In short, the government’s arbitrary regulations have destroyed the value of Eng’s property without any compensation. To take care of his family, Eng believed had no choice but to dig out his own peat. That’s when the government hit him with legal charges. But Eng is fighting back. He is fighting for his land, he’s fighting for his freedom.

Bureaucrats miss the target

Bob Mackie wants to defend his property rights even if it means going all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada. And that might just happen. Mackie is battling the unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats who make up the Niagara Escarpment Commission. The trouble began when the NEC ordered Mackie to shut down an indoor archery range he had put up on his property. NEC says he had not applied for a permit. Mackie refused to comply, arguing the NEC order infringed on his property rights as guaranteed by his Crown Land Patent grant. The NEC has fined Mackie $15,000 and he is taking his case to provincial court. In the meantime, Mackie says he will continue to run his range as a service to the community. “This has been a five year dance around a technicality and it doesn’t look like it will be brought home anytime soon. Not until it ends up in the proper forum.”

Perseverance Pays Off!

Imagine if one day your property assessment, without any warning, had suddenly shot up by 56 percent. Well that’s what happened to Arthur Brooks, an 89 year old World War II vet. In 2008 he was shocked when one day he learned the property assessment for his modest bungalow in Drummond-North Elmsley had shot up from $212,000.00 to $333,000.00. Acting on advice from a Lanark Landowners Association member, Arthur decided to appeal the assessment. MPAC’s response was a stern "No”. A man who valiantly fought the Nazis was not about to give up in this fight. He took his case to court. In November, Arthur received a lengthy decision by mail from a judge, wherein he was granted a final property assessment for 2009 of $194,000.00, a full $139,000.00 less than the original assessment by MPAC. Arthur will be receiving a rebate of about $1,000.00 + a greatly reduced tax burden for the foreseeable future. Arthur and Rita can now continue to afford to live in their lovely rural home, and they are quite convinced that perseverance plus intestinal fortitude can win.


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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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