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[thebitterguy]

Ah, man. John Tory Hoisted on own petard. Apparently, Napanee based rural yahoo Randy Hillier's Ontario Landowners Association managed to squeeze 100 of their borderline psychotic* membership into the PC leadership review. Tory's Tories had chosen Hillier as a candidate because they felt he would have drawn enough Tory voters away if he'd run as an independant to cost them the seat. The gained the seat, and in the process dropped a viper in their laps.

Urbanization just never moves fast enough for me.

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The association has made news for sending pictures of a dead deer, nicknamed Leona after Agriculture Minister Leona Dombrowsky, to Queen's Park.

Comments

[anidada.livejournal.com]

Urbanization just never moves fast enough for me.

Are you serious?

[thebitterguy]

Just enough to remove any political influence from terrorists.

[viktor-haag.livejournal.com]

That's the real trouble, isn't it? The population density in rural areas is low enough that the voices of the squeaky wheels stick out even more loudly than usual. However, that doesn't mean that Ontario's government hasn't historically, regularly kicked the crap out of rural residents on several issues (just as they have regularly kicked the crap out of urban residents on other issues).

Presumably, you'd like urbanization to halt just south of the point where you have to begin importing all of your food from other parts of the world, rather than the substantial portion that you do now?

[zenten.livejournal.com]

I'm more for getting people in suburbs and small towns that don't exist just to support farming/other natural resource industries to move to cities myself. That way the crime rate, pollution levels and cost of infrastructure can get reduced substantially.

[heron61.livejournal.com]

Dear gods yes. Too many people think that rural or exurban living is in some way less environmentally harmful, when the reverse is so obviously true. Also, given that a rise in urbanization is always strongly correlated with a decline in reactionary attitudes, I'm a huge fan of urbanization.

[viktor-haag.livejournal.com]

As long as we distinguish between urbanization and sub-urbanization, I have not so much of a problem.

[thebitterguy]

Yeah, just south of there.

[anidada.livejournal.com]

I don't understand what this means...

[thebitterguy]

I'm just really angry and Rotten Randy and his crew. The fact they think intimidating government officials by naming dead animals after them is a valid government tactic is not somethign I approve of.

[anidada.livejournal.com]

Okay, I grok that.

[viktor-haag.livejournal.com]

And yet, it's a practice that has a long and storied history! 8)

[dewline.livejournal.com]

I've spent enough time on farms to be inclined towards a certain amount of sympathy towards family farms, but this bunch?

No sympathy at the moment. And that sort of tactic of "protest" loses me even more.