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Pirates of the N. Atlantic
BY DAN WALSH
ACCORDING TO THE LAND-GRAB EXPERTS AT
THE NATURAL RESOURCES DEPARTMENT
(CHARLIE PARKER, PROP.), OVER 28,000
INDIVIDUAL PARCELS OF LAND IN NOVA SCOTIA
ARE WITHOUT AN ORIGINAL CROWN GRANT.
Until now Natural Resources has refused
to disclose the number of properties
it considers ungranted Crown land.
That means about
250,000 acres — almost
the size of the resort island
of Martinique — are not
protected from marauding
gangs of government bureaucrats,
who are known
to launch vicious volleys of
lawyer’s letters, designed
to tie up unsuspecting
homeowners in years of
litigation while the province
makes off with stolen property.
As serious
Frankcologists will tell you,
in the past decade Nova
Scotia took a page from the
Robert Mugabe playbook and began to
steal privately owned land without compensating
landowners (Frank
607,596,595,589,588,587).
“Expropriation without compensation” is
a policy practised and preached by Zimbabwean
dictator Mugabe, but perfected
by Nova Scotia’s Natural Resources
(Charlie Parker, Prop.).
As its logic-defying argument goes, if the
province is unable to locate an original
Leonette (Lea)
Purcell
Missing since
December 16, 2004
Declared dead on
October 17, 2006
May 6, 2011...
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Charlie Parker (not
exactly as illustrated).
Crown grant — often written on sheepskin
and dating back to the 18th century, 100plus
years before French anarchists
coined the famous black-flag waving
phrase “property is theft” — the land reverts
to Crown ownership in a heartbeat.
Incredibly, it doesn’t matter if the property
has been privately owned for hundreds
of years, and government taxes were always
paid. If no Crown grant can be located,
the land belongs to
the Crown without recourse.
Some with deep pockets
are challenging these
goonlike Mugabe tactics
before the courts, and
slowly the Natural Resources
Dept. is being
forced to tweak its land
grab regulations.
In its latest amendment,
announced in an April 19
press release, the department
appears to be taking
into consideration a recent
Court Of Appeal decision,
which hung the province
out to dry on its failure to recognize the
history of settlement on Brill Island in
Lunenburg County.
The new amendment claims to take the
historical land use into consideration when
determining if government can steal the
disputed property.
Natural Resources wants to clear up its
land-theft guidelines by April’s Fool Day
2013.
dan@atlanticfrank.ca
FRANK MAGAZINE
HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA
ISSUE 611
MAY 24, 2011
Friends, I am deeply honoured to stand
before you tonight as the leader of a
majority Conservative government.
Let me be perfectly clear.
I’m a friend to all Canadians, not just the
Canadians who voted for me. I think of it
this way. The friends who voted for me
are the kind of special friends I go that
extra mile for. A cup of sugar here, a
Senate appointment there. On the other
hand, my other friends are the sort that I
smile at and wave to on the street, despite
the fact that they are very likely a patsy for
the Taliban. Friends, if you’re like me,
you wear your tiny Canadian flag pin with
pride while accessing one-tier universal
health care, supporting our troops and
drinking Tim Horton’s coffee. You read
activist Supreme Court decisions at the
hockey game before heading to the cottage
on the lake to hunt with your registered
long gun and cavort with bikini girls in the
fresh, relatively unpolluted air. You enjoy
a good gay marriage, plate of poutine,
abortion, and seeing criminals getting out
of jail before they’re 80 80 as much as the
next guy. Friends, I give you my solemn
oath: these things will all continue to exist,
some in real life, some in beer commercials,
and others as treasured memories.
God bless all of you, God keep our land
glorious and free, and God help, er, bless,
Canada.
— — United United Republic Republic Republic of of Canada
Canada
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