Property rights are the building blocks of civilization. Unfortunately, when it comes to property rights, the people of Ontario are out of luck. Property rights need to be explicitly protected in the constitution.
A Petition to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario
WHEREAS at the hallmark of a free society is the right of the individual to the use and enjoyment of property;
AND WHEREAS property rights include the right not to be deprived thereof except in accordance with the principles of fundamental justice;
WE the undersigned petition the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as follows: That the Legislative Assembly pass the property rights motion tabled by MPP Randy Hillier, and take the necessary steps to enshrine property rights in the Constitution for Ontario.
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Financial capital influences government and government is not even as coherent a system as we imagine it to be. There are significant gaps in communication between community and government, as well as over-exercised channels of communication between business and government. This bias is systemic and is only fractionally solvable by petitions and votes. To rehabilitate the balance of influence on the government and truly begin solving issues such as this one, community requires it’s individuals to take on the practice of being accepting of continual change, open to working with ideas that are not their own and being willing and unafraid to express their opinions in public when situations like this one occur.
Thank you Randy for posting this. I hope many people respond to this unfair situation and we win back our rights.
Sign this petition everyone, educate others of it’s effects, and pass it on.
Zoning shouild be done by a non-partisan , remote entity, similar to MPAC. This way there is no conflict of interest and local politicians can’t line their pockets with developers money.
Any land down-zoned should compensate the propertry owner, just as up-zoned land should be taxed as a windfall.