Federal government employees who enter private land without the owner’s consent face fines of up to $200,000 under an amendment to Saskatchewan’s anti-trespassing law.
“This formalizes and reinforces the change to trespass regulations, made earlier this year, that requires federal employees to comply with the Act, which prohibits individuals from entering private land without the owner’s consent,” Justice Minister Bronwyn Eyre said in a news release about the Trespass to Property Amendment Act, 2022.
The legislation comes in response to a complaint the province received in August from a person claiming federal employees taking water samples near Pense, Sask., had trespassed on their land.
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Another good wrench to throw in the gears of the globalist machine would be to pass a law making the tracking of carbon usage of individuals illegal.
love it !!!
Why not make the fine $10 billion?
Maybe add a bounty to boot? Like for gopher tails. 😉
Shawn – my mother grew up in the age of bounty for gopher tails. It didn’t take her brothers long to figure out that catching the critter, removing the tail, and letting the tailless one go was good business as even tailless gophers propagate.
The NWMP had it right back in the day. If a member claimed his horse had died, the Mounties demanded a whole hoof as proof, not just a horseshoe.
“If a federal scientist inadvertently encroached on private land without permission, this matter can surely be handled in a mature and informed manner,” Guilbeault said.”
With GPS and apps distinguishing what’s Crown and what’s private land, which I’m told hunters use all the time, the “inadvertently encroached” excuse falls flat. Especially considering how they always get the best hardware taxpayer money can buy.
The Francois howler monkey thinks they can go anywhere they please because they’re feds.
Had a similar situation with an ahole Provincial environmental type skulking around on my land looking for Ash borers…when I confronted him about the private land/permission issue, he simply held up a piece of paper which was basically a permission slip to go wherever he wanted. Told him to get on with his business then GTFO.
Made me realize what little rights we have that can be done away with the stroke of a pen. Put me in special kind of mood for the rest of the day.
Well done Sask.
Last time we caught trespassers on our land it was two hunters who had just shot a whitetail buck on a remote pasture. We were herding cow/calf pairs for the fall roundup & heard the shot on the other side of a hill. Jumped in the pickup, went tearing across the prairie, crested the hill & found them trying to decide where to put the kill shot in the downed animal. They didn’t want to wreck the mount. I pulled my Buck out of its sheathe & told ’em if they didn’t hurry & put the animal out of his misery I’d do it myself.
Being pre cell phone time, I drove over to the neighbour’s, used their phone & called the Queen’s horsemen. One came out & during the ensuing questioning process it came out that one of the hunters was a cop from Canmore. RCMP wouldn’t press charges allegedly because where they crossed there wasn’t a No Trespassing sign. Every corner of the land was posted, but they had crossed between corners.
I read the Canmore cop the riot act & told him I was going to ride up with 50 of my homies on Hawgs & throw a BBQ in his back yard & there was f-all he could do about it because I was pretty sure his yard wasn’t posted. He didn’t care much for his logic being used against him. “You can’t talk to me like that!” I went toes to toes w/ him and asked him, “Whaddya gonna do about it?”
Told ’em I didn’t want a gut pile drawing a bunch of howly dogs & made ’em drag their deer, whole, to the nearest road, about 3/4 mile away. They’d asked it they could drive to the kill with their vehicle. Not a chance. I parked the truck on top of the nearest hill & watched every step. The bastards sweated some & took about twice as long as I would have. Pussies.
What a satisfying read lol.
Ha!!! Great story with a greater ending.
The lawyer Premiers that composed the Constitution without a mandare deliberately left out property rights.
One of the things on my lengthy list of to-do’s for DS is an Alberta Constitution that includes, among others, property rights. When we WEXIT, it’ll be a nice template for the Independent Republic of Buffalo.
Every province needs to do this.
“….claiming federal employees taking water samples…”
Sure they weren’t putting something in the water?
Election fraud coming to an election near you , in the near future.
That’s great if the owner didn’t inadvertently give the government permission. Several of the grants the government gave out in Saskatchewan these last few years include clauses to allow the government access at any time for any reason. Most farmers I know who accessed the grants were either desperate or blinded-by-the-money and overlooked the fine print.
Guilbeault, the hirsute sub-human, loves to trespass and believes a higher calling can excuse any law-breaking.
Nice to see some legislative pushback against the neo-Marxist Fascists from Ottawa.
Where are the samplings…
What are they sampling for…
Don’t care. WTF are they doing on my property w/o my express consent? That is the issue.
If we don’t know history we are bound to repeat it. Look at how fragile “rights” have become in the past two years.
Property rights were negotiated away by two prairie premiers. One NDP and one “conservative” in exchange for the “not withstanding clause”!!
How naive.
There is only one way to get it back. UDI.
Add 2 years less a day in jail too
Agreed. There needs to be some personal culpability. The crown would just pay the fine w/ taxpayer money anyway. In addition, if the landowner was given, say, 50% of the fine, that would be acceptable.
A true example of Provincial focused legislation in a Federal State.
Shouldn’t be necessary – but it is.
A paper tiger. There are provisions in federal legislation that over-ride provincial laws.
Jamie, I can’t say, I don’t know. I do know, however, that there are provincial jurisdictions that the Feds can’t touch (legally), such as natural resources. In other words, the precedent is set.
If there are other issues, then use the Notwithstanding clause. Daily, if necessary.
Has Ottawa disarmed Saskatchewan’s law enforcement agencies yet? I got a feeling that’s on the list.