Re: anti-terrorist act

Mar 04, 2015

Scott Reid is about to help pass the Conservative's "anti-terrorist" Act, which appears to label the organization and members of the Ontario Landowners as "terrorists". During the OLA's attempt to divide Ontario into two new Provinces (one rural based on "old stock values" and the Anglo-Saxon law, and one urban); "commerce was threatened" as tractors blocked Highways 7 & 401, Mr. Hillier sent threatening notes to Cabinet Ministers, his flagship magazine called for the creation of a "War-chest to protect us if any act of civil or uncivil disobedience brought the law down on us", and so on. Clearly these acts would be "questionable" under Harper's new law.

I debated the extremism of the group, but I never denied their legitimate right to associate and express their opinions in our democratic state. The OLA was a perfect example that democracy can not be a cherry picking exercise. Scott Reid is about to "out-law” his strongest supporters; and not a peep out of any of them.

R.W. Emerson: "We are reformers in spring and summer; in autumn and winter we stand by the old; reformers in the morning, conservers at night."

John McEwen