A4 - Sunday, September 23, 1984 - North Shore News

DRINKING-DRIVING
related cases in North
Shore courts have resulted
in the following recent
fines and jail sentences.
Mandatory licence suspen-
sion is in addition to
published penalty.

WEST VAN

Bayridge, West Van (im-
paired, $400); Andrew
Kevlahan, 4712 The
Highway, West Van (over
.08, $350); Daniel Pollock,
1069 Montroyal Blvd.,

Brian Anderson, 2040
Nelson Ave., Vancouver
(refuse breath test, 14
days); “Wes Suply, 4070

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Drinking-driving

North Van (impaired, North Van (over .08,
$300); William Skillings, $750); Fransisco Simoes
315-130 West Fifth, North Gama, 2627 Napier, North
Van (over .08, $375); Van (over .08, $500);
Gabriel McGeough, 3009 Ronald Keith Rogstad,
Brio, Whistler (over .08, 2117 Kirkstone Rd., North
$375); Bernard Hutton, Van (over .08, $850);
519 Newcroft, West Van Thomas Taylor Crosby,
(over .08, $450); Tyrone 2596 Ottawa Ave., West
Jospeh, Mt. Currie (over Van (impaired, $500);
.08, 14 days); William Joseph Harden, 1490
Gibbons, 5215 Keith, West Lennox, North Van (im-

Van (over .08, 14 days). paired, $350; refuse breath
test, $150); Garnet Hugh
NORTH VAN Morse, 24240 125 Ave.,

Maple Ridge (over .08,

Mark Harold Stevens, $600); Michael Ted
2983 265B St., Aldergrove @Olynyk, 6077 194A St,
(refuse breath test, $500); Surrey (over .08, 14 days);
Guillermo Samir Ruiz, Jean Morse, 528 E. Sixth,
206-310 East Second, North Van (over .08,

strictly personal

by Bob Hunter

Astonishingly, while we

. . ; (except, ahem, in the form of
realtor will be part of a drive to enshrine property (axes) the underlying truth is
rights in the Canadian Charter of Loopholes and

Unfreedoms.

It may have escaped your
notice, oh dweller and
mortgage-payer, but you
don’t really own your land,
you know. Who owns it,
then? The Crown. Theoreti-
cally, that means Queen Liz.
In fact, it means bureaucrats
high and low.

Back at the time of the
great constitutional debate,
when the feds were cutting
deals with the provinces in
somebody’s kitchen, they
came close to overlooking
women’s rights and native
people’s rights entirely. Only
networking and high-profile
media howling corrected
those two massive oversights.

Alas, property rights went
utterly unpatriated, so to
speak. The realtors weren't
quiet so alert or organized as
the Indians and women.

Accordingly, we are left
with the need to plow
through an amending process
that requires the acceptance
of seven provinces and half
the population in order to
change the constitution to tn-
clude the right to truly own
property.

A system in which property
rights are constitutionally
protected — as in the United
tates — is called ‘‘allodial”’
landholding. There, the ar-
burary and excessive use of”
government muscle 1s some-
what mitigated by the proper-
ty owner's recourse to the
courts

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that we still do not in a tech-
nical sense own our property
In the True North Strong absolutely.

And Tax-free By July, no Instead, we have freehold
such luck. Under our unpro- tenure, based on English
tected systems of property common law, giving us the
rights, your land can be rights to sell or give away our
expropriated for government land, to bequeath, to rent,
use at any time without any exclude others from tres-
legal obligation for the owner _ passing, and the right to hack
to be compensated. | kid you. down trees, cut the grass (or
not. not cut the grass), pluck the
This is a hittle historical ac- fruits and push around any
cident that goes back to the animals that happen to

Norman conquest of England wander onto our turf.
in 1066. After his victory, We are supposed to be able
William | claimed ownership to do what we want on our
of every square inch of land. tand. But no adult needs to
Loyal followers were granted be reminded that these
tracts, providing they came = shakey privileges can be af-
up with various services such fected aLany moment by Suc-
as a Stable supply of knights cession Law Reform Acts,
to fight for the king. Constructcn or Mechanics
In turn, the overlords Lien Acts, Env conmental
granted smaller parcels in ex- Protection Acts, Fi.e and
change for vegetables or Health Inspection Acts, Oc-
loyalty or sometimes a rollin. cupiers Liability laws, Expro-
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$300); Richard Edmund
Rae, 201-240 Mahon Ave.,
North Van (impaired,
$300); Michael James
Patrick Moran, 235 East
18th St., North Van (im-
paired, 14 days); Paul
David Mainstone, 1273
Clyde, West Van (im-
paired, 14 days); Neil Mar-
cus Karlen, 4710 Cedar-
crest, North Van (over .08,
$400); Antonio Leonard
Pasacreta, 3327 Allan Rd.,
North Van (over .08,
$500); Brian John Barry,
59-645 W. Victoria Park,
North Van (impaired, 21
days); Helen Muriel Craig,
610 East 22nd St., North
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Tax Acts, Planning Acts,
Registry Acts, Estates Acts,
Family Law Refarm Acts,
and even Mental Health
Acts, to mention a few.

And then, of course, there
are zoning regulations, by-
laws, orders-in-council, noise
controls, subdivision controls
and regulations governing the
sale of land to non-residents.

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an opportunity to question
it.”

Inevitably, this diminishes
our guarantees of freedom
from oppression.

So. Let’s have a_ hearty
round of the amended ver-
sion of the famous song. This
land is my tand, this land
ain't your land, this land
belongs to me and my wife.
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