[O[r 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.
One of Five Most Outrageous Examples of Government Infringement on Property Rights for 2010
Good thing Hudak is yelling long and hard about this stuff, eh. Eh? Eh??
I wonder what would happen if enough Ontario farmers decided to “go Galt”? Just stop shipping to Toronto, and widely advertise the reasons?
They wouldn’t even have to stop production, just sell it to Buffalo or Montreal or someplace else, anywhere except Toronto.
Wouldn’t a provincial election be a really, really excellent time for something like that?
Posted by: The Phantom at January 1, 2011 1:19 PM
Ontario Farmers??? Stand up??? Ho ho, ho, ho ho. Hee, hee, hee, hee, hee. Ha, ha, ha…..