Wish I had neighbours like these....

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This is from a local community paper

"Burke Mountain residents blocked access to a construction site Tuesday in a show of support for neighbours they say are being treated unfairly by the city.
Barry and Linda Sheridan own 1.5 acres on Burke Mountain and the city of Coquitlam wants a strip of it for construction of David Avenue. The city also wants part of the property for stream enhancement that is required because of the road work."

More at www.tricitynews.com

[Fenris]

1. Does Canada have "eminent domain"?

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2. Explain that

[Maru Kitteh]

5. That's where the government takes away your land

because they need it for a road, or now thanks to the supreme court, a corporation wants it for a shopping mall.

[Fenris]

6. You might now it as compulsory purchase or compulsory aquisition.

Eminent domain (US), compulsory purchase (England and Wales) or compulsory aquisition (Australia) in common law legal systems is the power of the state to appropriate private property for its own use without the owner's consent. The term eminent domain is used primarily in the United States, where the term was derived in the mid-19th Century from a legal treatise written by the Dutch jurist Hugo Grotius in 1625. The term compulsory purchase, also originating in the mid-19th Century, is used primarily in England and Wales, and other jurisdictions that follow the principles of English law. Originally, the power of eminent domain was assumed to arise from natural law as an inherent power of the sovereign.

Governments most commonly use the power of eminent domain when the acquisition of real property is necessary for the completion of a public project such as a road, and the owner of the required property is unwilling to negotiate a price for its sale. In many jurisdictions the power of eminent domain is tempered with a right that just compensation be made for the appropriation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eminent_domain

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7. We have that - we just call it expropriation

[charlie]

3. Uh-oh

Coquitlam is where that uber-asshole Adam Yoshida lives. I'll look forward to his demented frothings on the matter.

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4. Yeah, I grew up close to that dickhead

You'll be happy to know he was thoroughly trounced when he ran for School Trustee.

He always writes insane letters to local papers.