The Ontario Landowners Association Position Paper on Property Rights

The only person who has a right to private property is the private property owner. The private property owner has the right to sell his property to a willing buyer when a price has been agreed upon. If government wants a right to private property, because it is deemed to be in the public interest, then government must pay the private property owner full, fair and timely compensation for the loss of use, enjoyment and value of the property. The Expropriations Act defines that government can expropriate private property for the public good and the private property owner must be paid the highest land use market value - in other words compensated for the land use that would have the highest value.  

When government decides to ignore the property rights of private property owners, it has decided that property is more important than people. At this point, government has forgotten that its mandate is to serve people and make them safe and secure. Secure includes the security of private property rights. History has clearly demonstrated that when a state forsakes private property rights, it is the beginning of the failure of that civilization.  

The Ontario Landowners Association does not accept the "taking" of private property by government without compensation. This wrongful action by government on Landowners has caused us to call for all Landowners across Ontario to stand up and say...

STOP! This Land is Our Land. Back Off Government!