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Our Land, Our Farms, Our Farmers

Harper announces intention to entrench "Property Rights"

by Ontario Landowners association,,
Wednesday, January 11, 2006

Finally a politician who has the courage to do what is RIGHT.

Why are rural landowners under attack? Why do we need property rights entrenched in our Constitution? Here is the Liberal government's plan and strategy to attack rural landowners and their economy. TaKING our land-For their use.

People often believe that governments are benevolent and have our best interests at heart when they pass legislation: and that the failings of government policy and legislation are the result of poor implementation or their lack of knowledge and competence. The Vancouver declaration proves they are both neither benevolent, nor incompetent, only deceptive. This declaration provides the bureaucratic rational for collecting data regarding your land and then using that data to change your ownership rights.

The second step of the plan was concluded with the repatriation of the Canadian constitution that omitted property rights from the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, but included collective & minority rights. >

The third step is the abolition and modification to existing water use rights as outlined in the 1989 UN Charter on Ground Water Management that Canada signed onto. >

The fourth and final step is found in "The panel Report-On the role of government, which lays out the framework to manage the death of Rural Ontario.

47,000 more reasons to fight back

The Vancouver action Plan

64 Recommendations for National action

approved at Habitat: United Nations Conference

on Human Settlements, Vancouver, Canada

31 May to 11 June 1976

Vancouver Declaration

Preamble

1 Land, because of its unique nature and the crucial role it plays in human settlements, cannot be treated as an ordinary asset, controlled by individuals and subject to the pressures and inefficiencies of the market. Private land ownership is also a principal instrument of accumulation and concentration of wealth and therefore contributes to social injustice; if unchecked, it may become a major obstacle in the planning and implementation of development schemes. Social justice, urban renewal and development, the provision of decent dwellings-and healthy conditions for the people can only be achieved if land is used in the interests of society as a whole.

2 Instead, the pattern of land use should be determined by the long-term interests of the community, especially since decisions on location of activities and therefore of specific land uses have a long-lasting effect on the pattern and structure of human settlements. Land is also a primary element of the natural and man-made environment and a crucial link in an often delicate balance. Public control of land use is therefore indispensable to its protection as an asset and the achievement of the long-term objectives of human settlement policies and strategies.

3 To exercise such control effectively, public authorities require detailed knowledge of the current patterns of use and tenure of land; appropriate legislation defining the boundaries of individual rights and public interest; and suitable instruments for assessing the value of land and transferring to the community, inter alia through taxation, the unearned increment resulting from changes in use, or public investment or decisions, or due to the general growth of the community.

4. above all, Governments must have the political will to evolve and implement innovative and adequate urban and rural land policies, as a corner-stone of their efforts to improve the quality of life in human settlements.

> Randy Hillier
President, Ontario Landowners association
RR # 3 Perth, On
K7H 3C5
613-267-6661
www.ruralrevolution.com

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