On Saturday January 10, 2009 the Muskoka Landowners Association (MLA) held its inaugural meeting in Bracebridge at the Royal Canadian Legion. The room was at capacity : 155 attendees with standing room only.
The new Board of Directors:
President: Carey-Anne Oke-Cook.
Vice President: Dedorah Madill
Treasurer: Karen Bainbridge
Secretary: Barb McMurray
This is the first all female executive of the OLA's 21st county association. In attendance was OLA President Jack MacLaren, VP Tony Kenny and 3 executive members, Gary Otten, Karl von Bloedau, and Mike Posavot.
The landowner alone pays to foster this crop and he alone has the right to harvest it
The MLA’s first issue will be the District Municipality of Muskoka's draft Tree Cutting By-Law. This is an infringement of property rights. Trees are a crop owned by the landowner. Once again, private property is being perceived as publicly owned. The public does not pay to plant trees on private land nor do they pay the taxes on that land during their care. The landowner alone pays to foster this crop and he alone has the right to harvest it. Any interference in this right will be viewed as theft of the landowners’ property.
On January 26 at 7.00 P.M. in Huntsville the District Municipality of Muskoka council will be meeting to discuss the Tree Cutting By-Law and the new MLA and the OLA will be there to stop this infringement on property rights.
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.
