For Immediate Release
November 20, 2008

Restore DCE to a subdivision

Queen’s Park – On record in today’s Orders and Notices Paper in the Ontario Legislature is Haldimand-Norfolk MPP Toby Barrett’s resolution calling on the McGuinty government to restore Douglas Creek Estates to a subdivision.

“There’s only one way, in my mind, to resolve the on-going land dispute in Caledonia and that’s to return DCE to its original state,” said Barrett. “Further, the province should restore police presence and protection to DCE and to the so-called ‘no-go zones’ created by McGuinty.”

Barrett’s resolution was tabled in the Ontario Legislature yesterday afternoon and he has already received positive feedback from many Caledonia residents many of whom have not been able to sell their homes or have lost their business do to the occupation. 

“My fear is that the current government continues to ignore this situation with hopes that the people of Caledonia will become complacent,” Barrett said. “I will continue to keep this issue on the front burner and will not give up.”

MPP Barrett’s resolution is printed below.

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RESOLUTION

That, in the opinion of this House, families adjacent to the Douglas Creek Estates subdivision in Caledonia must be offered adequate and appropriate compensation, beyond anything negotiated to date, for their subjection to social, economic and psychological distress since the illegal occupation by native activists on February 28, 2006; so-called OPP 'no-go zones' must be eliminated and OPP patrols and protection restored to these zones, as well as to the subdivision; and the subdivision must be restored to its former status as a residential subdivision.

Submitted by Toby Barrett, MPP

Haldimand-Norfolk