I feel for the Rainvilles, but this is exactly the sort of thing that eminent domain is supposed to be used for. Now if the government were using it get the land to build a shopping center for Canadians taking advantage of the strong loonie, I'd be upset, but not with an expanded border station.
So you think stealing a family farm to build some government police station is justified?
For the last time YES.
You don't have to keep drawing it out after every "there's nothing wrong with this."
$39,500 an acre is probably a lot more than that struggling old farm is worth. If anything, these guys are stealing from the government.
Please go read the Constitution before you use it to defend things that defy it.
That is a disgusting sentiment. Perhaps they will come for your property next.
As long as you are being compensated, who cares? Now of course a lot of these places have special attachments to people and that cannot be paid off by the government. So yeah, it's not a black or white issue. But usually if the owners are compensated properly, I don't mind.
When a robber robs you, it doesn't matter that he gives you something else to take away that you valued less than what was stolen.
Are we to conclude from this that you're opposed to eminent domain on principle?
I'm pretty much opposed to armed robbery as a matter of principle, yes.
Despite it being enshrined in the Constitution?
