Ont.producers won't take it any more...

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Welcome to Rural Revolution
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Rural Revolution
Stop the Destruction Convoy
Due to the overwhelming success and explosive growth in support and participation in the Rural Revolution; the " Stop the Destruction Convoy " schedule has been altered.

The "Stop the Destruction " convoy will reach Prescott Ontario on February 4 2005. Highway 401 highway and the International Bridge to the USA will be closed by the demonstration of rural dissatisfaction. In addition, a tractor convoy will leave Tillsonburg on February 1 and arrive at the Prescott demonstration site on Friday February 4. The Tillsonburg convoy will travel Highway 2 through Downtown Toronto on its way to Eastern Ontario.

On Friday February 18 the rural revolution will travel to highway 401 and the Ontario/Quebec border. March 9, 2005 will see the arrival of the rural revolution to the Provincial legislature at Queens Park, Toronto.

Are you fed up with the intolerable acts of Governments?
The Nutrient Management Act
The Amalgamation Act & the loss of democratic representation
Environmental Protection Act and the Ministry of Environment closing rural saw mills
Species at Risk Act & the loss of property use & enjoyment
MPAC & unfair property tax assessments and reclassifications on woodlots & maple syrup producers
Fish & Wildlife Act & the MNR mismanagement of wildlife and introductions
Unaccountable and overpowering bureaucrats armed with double standards & unjust enforcement
Firearm registration Act & the loss and destruction of firearms and the rural lifestyle
Buffer zones and land use designations that deny the use of private property
The mining act that strips away rights and privacy
DFO regulations that protect minnows more than people and harm your farm
The bureaucracies’ attack on the rural economy and lifestyle
And ready to demand a return to democracy & justice?

Join the rural landowners, farmers and small business – to fight for democracy’s return and a Canadian Bill of Rights – not Government Wrongs. All these intolerable acts are the result of our lost property rights. The Landowners are resolved to make Parliament restore “Our right to own, use, enjoy and earn a living on our private property” – free from the unnecessary and intrusive urban regulations that have closed our sawmills, slaughtered our abattoirs, broken the back of our family farms, threatened our maple syrup producers and clear-cut personal freedom and liberty from our woodlots and lands.

In conjuction with:

Lanark Landowners’ Association (LLA)
The Renfrew County Private Landowners Association (RCPLA)
Ontario Property & Environmental Rights Alliance (OPERA)
Hastings County Property Rights coalition
Glengarry Landowners association
Leeds & Grenville landowners association
Ontario Wood Producers Association (Renfrew County Small Sawmill Association (RCSSA) delete)
West Carleton Rural Association (WCRA)
Rural Council of OTTAWA
Water watch association
Milton rural Residents association
Rural Rights alliance
Alberta Association of Landowners for the Protection of Agricultural Land
Western Stock Growers
Ottawa Carleton Soil & Crop improvement association
Ontario Deamalamation Network
Contact Randy Hillier 613-267-6661 (rhillier@istar.ca),
Merle Bowes 257-7968,
John Vanderspank 259-2784

“THIS LAND IS OUR LAND – BACK OFF GOVERNMENT”

[JD6320]

I think Canadian producers have to start standing up more for themselves,like the European farmers do,the governments over there don't like to mess around with there farmers. We always seem to be concerned about what the public will think of us, all the while they enjoy cheap food at our cost.
Tom

[cowman]

I agree that all governments are out of control. Federal, Provincial, municipal! Somehow they just don't get it? The idea should be less government...not more?
Unfortunately, politicians have this idea that they know what is best and it is the duty of the peasants to keep them living at a level they find pleasant! The beuracracy is completely out of control and because they keep growing by leaps and bounds they figure they need to justify their existance by creating more rules and regulations...and then hire more people to enforce them! I suspect it would be better to give them all a pension and send them home?
It always amazes me how this country ever got built without the hordes of beurocrats and politicians we have today, to regulate the peasants?
I am also always amazed that we can afford all these rule makers/enforcers but we can't afford to pay the person being forced to comply for "the good of society"?
Under the new "manure police" the farmer must pay to do soil samples, manure samples, keep detailed records, move his feeding sites/watering sites. Is it necessary? Perhaps. But how come he ends up paying the bill, if it is good for all society? The same thing could be said for the Endangered Species Act?
There were probably some abuses for sure, but common sense doesn't seem to matter at all to the little Hitlers in government?

[Showstar]

Manure police?? what is up with that. I think if it is soo important where and how it is all placed along with feeding sites and such that the government should deffinately be paying for this. i dont know a whole lot about the situation,if anyone has any more information about it that would be great.

[Showstar]

cowman continually refers to Manure Police. After several years of consultation with the livestock industry and municipalities as well as other stakeholders the amended Agricultural Operations Practices Act ( AOPA) came into effect on January 1/02. This Act in part removed responsibility for siting confined feeding operations from municipalities and appointed the Natural Resources Conservation Board ( NRCB) as the regulatory body for all livestock operations in the Province.
The NRCB must review all applications for new and expanding confined feeding operations and ensure that all technical requrements are met prior to approving said operations.
The NRCB is also responsible for monitoring all existing and new confined feeding operations to ensure that they do not pose a risk to the environment and are compliant with any conditions in Municipal Development Permits or NRCB permits.
NRCB Inspectors respond to complaints regarding any livestock operation that may be posing a risk due to manure run off etc.
In some instances Enforcement Orders are issued, all these are posted on the NRCB website and remain there until the operator is in compliance.
In June of 2004 the AOPA legislation was amended to allow operators to apply to have existing permit conditions amended if they no longer were applicable.

Seasonal Feeding and Bedding Sites came under the AOPA radar on January 1, 2005. The legislation requires that feeding and bedding sites cannot be located within 30 m of a common water body unless an interceptor ( berm ) is constructed to prevent manure run off, or all manure is sc****d off the site when the ground is still frozen.
All operations producing 500T or more of manure each year are now required to have a nutrient management plan which involves soil testing and having ample manure spreading lands so as not to overload nutrients on the land base.