PETITION

PETITION TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS OF CANADA

IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED

WE, THE UNDERSIGNED CITIZENS OF CANADA, draw the attention of the House to the following:

THAT on December 10, 1948, the United Nations Assembly approved the Universal Declaration of Human Rights including Article 17 which states: (1) Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others. (2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property; and, the federal government has failed to fully comply with Article 17;

THAT constitutional expert Professor Peter Hogg wrote that, "The omission of property rights from Section 7 [of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms] greatly reduces its scope. It means that section 7 affords no guarantee of compensation or even a fair procedure for the taking of property by the government. It means that section 7 affords no guarantee of fair treatment by courts, tribunals or officials with power over purely economic interests of individuals or corporations. The product is a section 7 in which liberty must be interpreted as not including property, as not including freedom of contract and, in short, as not including economic liberty.";

THEREFORE, your petitioners request that Parliament support Private Members Bill (C-452) introduced by the Member of Parliament for Yorkton-Melville which would strengthen the protection of property rights in the Canadian Bill of Rights and specifically guarantee that every person has (1) the right to enjoyment of their property, (2) the right not to be deprived of their property unless they are given a fair hearing, paid fair, timely and impartially-fixed compensation, and (3) the right to appeal to the courts if their property rights have been infringed upon.

Signatures (Sign your name. Do not print.) Addresses (Give your full mailing address.)

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Note: Signatures and addresses must be handwritten originals only.

Each signatory must indicate his or her address

Each petition must be free from erasures, crossed off signatures or changes to the text.

Each petition must have at least 25 signatures to be valid.

The subject matter must be shown on each attached sheet of signatures and addresses.

PLEASE RETURN POSTAGE FREE TO YOUR MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT, HOUSE OF COMMONS, OTTAWA, K1A 0A6, OR TO:

GARRY BREITKREUZ, MP, (YORKTON-MELVILLE) ROOM 252, WELLINGTON BLDG., HOUSE OF COMMONS, OTTAWA, ON K1A 0A6