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A Slippery Slope

No, this by-law is not right. Private property is private property.

I love and have planted thousands of trees. I am the 5th generation of my family to live in the town and I grew up in the old part of town. The trees are wonderful and most people do not cut them down; instead, they work hard to maintain them. I do not see a problem that requires the removal of private property rights.  

 This is still a free country and your property is yours. If someone wants to decrease their own property value by cutting down their trees, that’s their choice. If you want your neighbours trees, then purchase the property. The town did not pay for your property, you did and it’s yours. 

Is the Town going to pay for the care of the old trees? As trees age, it costs thousands of dollars to maintain them & when they inevitably die, cost a small fortune to remove. 

People came to this country to be free and to escape the oppression of their overreaching government. We can never forget that our country was founded on the values of freedom. We are slowly seeing our rights and freedoms disappear. Overreaching by-laws like this are abusing provincial laws that was never intended to be used like this. 

It is a slippery slope. When we stand by and watch private property rights infringed on, we must then ask ourselves what other rights will we be asked to give up next? 

 

 

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P over 2 years ago
Agrees 200%. .  My disgust is that....some residential homeowners DON'T  maintain there properties as in pruning there trees.....
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The idea of property rights is an American one. As a citizen of Canada 🇨🇦 we have civil responsibilities to those around us. These mature trees where inplace years before we moved to Newmarket. If you dont like trees. Don't buy the lot. Perhaps you are better suited to an apartment. But please don't cut down the trees. Especially when we are already messing up the environment so much. They do so much good for us all
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