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By DOUG THOMPSON

   

This new ruling is making my wife and I that much more shameful of the direction this country (USA) is going, and continues to make Canada more attractive.

Can anyone tell me what the Canadian legal situation is with this matter? Can developers take privately owned land without the owners consent to build condos or strip malls? Is each province different?

Either way, the new ruling is rather troublesome.

   

As far as I understand it here the Municipaltiy can take the first four feet of your frontage for expansion.

   

Do not use this as an excuse to move to Canada, we do it here too!

   

Trust me, there are myriad reasons that my family is immigrating to Canada. Most can be found here on CKA!

   

I'm right behind ya... maybe we should caravan!

   

True. We are serfs now.

Unfortunately for the elitists we are armed serfs.

Come take my home, motherf**kers. I'm ready for you.

   

The article doesn't give any specifics about what has happened there. I need more information to form an opinion on this situation.

Currently, the city of Woodstock in Ontario has been putting a package of land together so Toyota can build an assembly plant there that will employ 1500 people. All landowners except one sold their property to the city for a fair market price. The only holdout is an old mall owned by investors. I guess they wanted over 5 times the market value for the property and would not negotiate a fair price(the mall owners being the greedy land speculators here). The city has now taken steps to expropriate the land. This is a good thing in my opinion.

   

The case in America isn't an old stripmall, it's peoples homes. The want to flatten them to build a hotel. The people that are holding out, from what I understand, don't want to sell at any price...

   

More on this issue:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelo_v._New_London

Come on up! Alberta is much like Texas, except it's colder in the winter, and we don't get those nasty tropical storms and hurricanes. You're always welcome.

   

Miss Kelly and I will get there as soon as our little skates can take us!!!!

   

Careful, skates on asphault causes sparks!

I've got a friend from here who moved to Dallas, and I've actually heard the phrase "Y'all come back now . . . eh!" pass his lips. You will be assimilated!

   

I don't know how serious you are about immigrating, I am rather serious (already started the process, which is somewhat lengthy). But, here are two good sites to get you started:

http://www.canada-city.ca/canada-immigration/index.php

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/index.html

   

SWEET!
Thanks for the info!
WOHOOO!!!!

   

If I may, an alarmist notion has occured to me:
Tax cuts for the rich generally mean that revenue must be made up somewhere. Usually, this means the poor (or at least notsorich) wind up carrying a larger portion of the tax burden.
Thus, you see a shrinking of the middle class, and an expansion of the lower class and underclass. HOWEVER:
Think about this: when a homeowner family whose tax burden has increased to the point where they are strugging to make ends meet eventually defaults on their mortgage, what happens?
The bank repos, of course. And if the bank repos, who owns that land now? The bank, representing the richest 10% or so of society.
Could the return of fuedal-style property ownership possibly occur in the United States?

Or is this simply a paranoid idea?

   

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