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Lanark Landowners to run Slate of Candidates in 2010 Ontario Municipal Elections

November 6/2009 - The Lanark Landowners Association will field a Slate of Candidates in the 2010 Ontario Municipal Elections in Lanark County. During the next 12 months, the Lanark Landowners will recruit local residents to run in the 55 elected positions in the 8 Municipalities of Lanark County.
Smiths Falls, Ontario October 23, 2009 – The Lanark Landowners are setting the stage to make the 2010 Ontario Municipal Elections the most exciting in recent memory. The Lanark Landowners, famous for their “STOP – Back Off Government” cry for property rights, are wading into local municipal politics.

Not content with electing Randy Hillier, one of the original founding members of the Lanark Landowners and the Ontario Landowners as M.P.P. for Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox & Addington, the LLA are going to repeat this success story at the municipal government level.

The Lanark Landowners will be recruiting local residents from each of the 8 municipalities of Lanark County to run in 55 elected positions. During the next 12 months, open door work shops and town hall meetings will be held. Residents, potential candidates and currently elected council representatives are encouraged to come to these meetings.

The work shops will determine the priorities needed to run municipal government. There will be no deficits. Sewers, roads, bridges and potholes will be fixed first. Schools, hospitals and retirement facilities will be built first. Farm land will be brought back into food production and not paved over for massive and out dated sub-divisions. Farmers markets will be top priority for food distribution. Wetlands, critical to the environment for pollution control will not be drained and paved over for shopping malls.

Lanark County was built on a history of sawmills, dairies and cheese factories, beef, pork and sheep, butchers and abattoirs, water power, woollen mills and quarries. Recreation in the wilderness consisted of hunting, fishing, boating, canoeing and camping. All of these farm products, manufacturing and recreation activities are sustainable and renewable for generations.

Lanark County is not a suburb of Ottawa and we will not tolerate municipal politics that has dragged Carleton County into a black hole of massive deficits, huge property taxes and billions of litres of pollution. Ottawa City politics have destroyed the rural life of Carleton County. The un-elected, bureaucracy is running the city and political infighting has paralysed the democratic process, leaving the people to fend for themselves.

Unfair and excessive property taxes, land use, land restriction and re-zoning will not be tolerated if the landowner is not compensated accordingly. Provincial or Federal acts that violate property rights , restrict private land use or where private land is “deemed to be an environmentally sensitive or species at risk area” will be fought at every level. MPAC (municipal property assessment corporation) will be required to assess every property prior to raising property taxes and the practice of “reverse billing” will end.

The McGuinty government is on notice. If anyone of the 500,000 provincial acts, regulations, minister directives or provincial boards contravene the Charter of Rights and Freedoms then that act or regulation will be deemed to be without authority.

“corruptissima re publica plurimae leges”
The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.