The Ontario government will consider all options including new legislation to shield farmers from animal rights activists, the province’s agriculture ministry said Friday.
The assurances from Minister Ernie Hardeman’s office come as livestock producers press for action to prosecute those who trespass on their properties and aggressively protest at processing plants.
Ministry spokesperson Avi Yufest said the government shares the producers’ concerns following a number of high-profile protests in the past year.
Seriously – it is dangerous for people to visit barns. People trespassing in hog barns should be shot on sight and dumped in the manure pit. Hog farmers take varying precautions to prevent the spread of disease from disinfecting boots to having full sets of barn specific clothing, changing when entering and leaving.
The last thing we need is yet one more law that will be ignored by these fruitcakes.
Enthusiastically enforce the laws currently on the books & be done with it. Trespassing is trespassing!
Central planning to the rescue.
Shoot, Shovel and Shut up….the perfect response to these Terrorists..
shotgun enforcement of private property
This is nothing but a head fake by Double-cross Doug Ford and the leaders of Ontario’s farm and livestock associations. Doug and his sheep launched an appeal against a January court decision that determined most of the powers conferred on the Ontario SPCA were unconstitutional. The appeal will be heard next month.
https://nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pmn/canada-news-pmn/ontario-appealing-decision-that-found-ospcas-powers-to-be-unconstitutional
The original fight against this unbelievably oppressive legislation was launched by Jeff Bogerts and Tom and Marlene Black of the Ontario Landowners Association and their lawyer, Kurtis Andrews. Other than Randy Hillier, Ontario’s Conservative MPs hid and shivered in the long grass, and there was not one red cent of financial or moral support from any of Ontario’s farm/livestock organizations…and you can bet your bippy there will be none this time around.
Ford and his cowards are leading Ontario’s farmers down the very same path chosen for them by McGuinty and Wynne. But as I pointed out in a related thread a day or two ago, farmers are either whistling past the graveyard, or they are ignorant to the point of negligence. Either way, they will deserve what’s heading at them.
We can thank Mahatma Gandhi for this behaviour. He was the one who set the standard for what’s euphemistically called civil disobedience, which meant that one didn’t have to obey any laws one didn’t agree with by simply branding them as “unjust”.
While I was at UBC 40 years ago, I saw how that sort of behaviour was openly encouraged. Being arrested for engaging in it was considered to be honourable and praiseworthy, especially if one made it particularly difficult to be apprehended, such as chaining oneself in place.
It’s simply lawlessness and anarchy by any other name.
There is no paucity of perfectly adequate Criminal Code legislation already on the books to deal with this type of trespass.
By pretending the contrary, the only statement Double-cross Doug and his sheep are making is that they just don’t have the guts to take the course of criminal prosecutions against their little PETA friends.
Do you really think they are some kind of “friends” with PETA, or is just being afraid of them and lazy an explanation enough?
“Do you really think they are some kind of “friends” with PETA, or is just being afraid of them and lazy an explanation enough?”
That is the question that Ontario’s farm organizations should be asking Double-cross Doug.
Jamie maybe Ford doesn’t want another fight with the unions. The unions here in Ontario are behind just about any and every anti Ford conservative movement . They were also behind wynne and McGimpy, we have a union problem here I Ontario
key word ‘aggresive’.
this ainst some little old grandma standing at the end of the driveway in the rain pleading for whatever.
they are criminal vandals, endangering everything involved from their abject ignorance.
I call it broken brain syndrome. their brains are broken and do not function as designed.
you cannot debate or advise them, their brains are broken and warp whatever is presented to them.
they are like pathological liars who come to believe their own fanatic explanations.
and speaking of livestock, they are exhibiting herd mentality.
all part of broken brain syndrome, an inability to think independently.
If they’re taking suggestions, a Florida-style stand your ground law would work wonders.
Only one or two animal rights cranks who dared trespass on Ontario farms would need killing or maiming before they took the hint.
I say take these Animal Rights idiots and strand them in the Wilderness for a month lets see them be able to take it with real wildlife around not computer animated talking piggies give them a real close up view of Nature