“Governments must be restrained from dedicating public money and power to crush their citizens. The Charter fetters police powers and legislation, but what impedes government from applying its unlimited resources to harass us into poverty in civil court?”
USA 15th in Property Rights Protections. Behind…Finland?
“The U.S. is in the top 20 percent worldwide when it comes to protecting all sorts of property rights. But before we get all self-congratulatory, consider the chart on page 28, where you will find the good ol’ USA ranks 15th…behind Finland, Singapore, Austria, Denmark, Canada and others.”
Media Release – 2010 International Property Rights Index: Canada outranks USA; but Improvements Needed: Finland scores highest in protection of property; Canada at 12th place but has no constitutional guarantees for property
In 2010, Canada ranks as the highest country in the Western hemisphere for protection of property, according to a new international study.
2010 International Property Rights Index: Canada outranks USA; but Improvements Needed
The Frontier Centre for Public Policy, along with the International Property Rights Alliance, released the 2010 International Property Rights Index. The Index, measures the protection of property rights in 125 countries.
Land Regulation, Expropriation and Appropriation Laws in Alberta
Further research and creative remedies will be needed if Alberta’s landowners are not to pay a disproportionate price for infrastructure and environmental regulation.
Media Release – Safeguarding the family farm–and other private property
Bills 19 and 36 expand the role of government appropriation and land management in Alberta—making appropriation and management more frequent, intensive, time-consuming, and expensive.
Expert Calls Expropriation Legislation Vague
“The problem with the legislation is shown by the difficulty of what we’re discussing,” he said. “It’s so broad a concept it can be used to argue for basically anything and that’s what’s happening.”
Subject to Approval
The choice of early Canadians to remain closely tied to the British Empire had a major impact on the development of property rights in this country. Although we as a society tend to see ourselves as having more in common with the United States than with the United Kingdom, our system of land ownership, more accurately called real property ownership, does not permit the same level of rights and freedoms over the land we hold as the U.S. system affords. In the United States, landowners usually hold title to the mineral resources located beneath their land; in Canada, this is never the case.
Antoine Hacault
Frontier discusses a troubling precedent-setting case with Antoine Hacault, the lawyer for the Foulliard family from the RM of Ellice, Manitoba. The local RM council is movng to expropriate their land for tourism development purposes.