Land for Highways is a big conflick of tax payer money?

That is a good point 11:35. We really probably don't know enough about just what is involved when land is expropriated.

It is also complicated by these mining claims as of late and the differences between hydro/gas line easements and land for highways and large scale projects like park land.

If what has been reported is true then there are real concerns about the way in which the mining claims are being handled.

If people are not being properly notified then they should be complaining. Get a good number of those claims nullified for improper procedure and perhaps they will start to take their responsibilities a little more seriously.

Those are the rules and as some have said there are not all that many rules on the landowners side as it is so we should press hard for the few we have.

On the plus side with mining claims, the simple fact that the vast majority disappear in the first year. That may be of little solace to those that hold the opinion that no one has the right to come on their property but unfortunately they are wrong.

Buried gas lines and hydro lines are also sometimes expropriated as a last resort. These are a little different as the land can still be used to some degree by the owners as for farming for example but of course not for the placing of permanent structures and access is still required for inspection and maintenance.

It is highway and other large land tracks that really cause the most problems. Fortunately now a days it is confined mostly to highways Maybe they have learned their lesson since Kouchibouguac but with so many things like native land claims outstanding you can never say for sure when the government may have to assemble another large tract of land down the road.

The trouble with highways is they often divide land can make things very troublesome for landowners.

Frankly it is a wonder there are not more disputes.

The problem is what do you do?

Stop all expropriation? Never build a highway again? I am willing to bet there are a good many out there that would argue that the government has no right to expropriate land yet would be more than willing to see the university be forced to turn it's woodlot over to parkland.

Isn't that the same thing?
Even in the U.S. the laws are changing and not always for the better. It was only a couple of years ago that their supreme court upheld the right of cities to expropriate land for no more reason than developing a larger tax base.

Things are not always greener on the other side of the fence.

I don't know who is posting these comments but it seems to me like nothing bad has ever happened to you in your life.

I can tell you that i was born when this expropriation started.

I seen my parents be destroyed by people like you that unfortunately don't know anything except the gossip you here.

Atleast my parents, brothers, sisters and I fought for what we believed in especially when we have the proof but the courts will not allow us to show it in a courtroom because of the crooked work that was done during the expropriation.

People sending letters to my parents that if he continued his fight that my little sister and i would be kidnapped.

So we had to be kept home from school. I know one thing i will never forget what happened in my life. So before you start putting down things you have no understanding about, maybe you should look for the truth before speaking out.

Go ask the Big Shots who keep on filling there pockets with the poor mans money, taking away there land and rights and freedoms, because someday it may just be one of your children or grandchildren who may be caught up in this problem someday. Employments’????

Big Shots?

Douglas Caldwell Lawyer from N.S. Put $212,000.00 bill to N.B. Taxpayers ? you would think N.B. lawyer would be up set?
Jamie C.Eddy

Allen Miles, Andy Rouse you have no I-D how many lawyers i got hook up with?