More on Scott Avenue recreation expansion/ residential retraction

While the Town of Rothesay was unwilling to comment, owners of Scott Avenue apartment buildings are talking about expropriation, according to the Telegraph Journal.

For those interested in expropriation and its impact on citizens, a blog at http://govinjustice.blogspot.com/ chronicles one property owners fight with the province for what he believes to be fair compensation.

You might also want to skim the Expropriation Act, which includes this chilling section:

4   The Lieutenant-Governor in council or a Minister of the Crown may expropriate where he considers it desirable for establishing or carrying out
(a)any work or enterprise that he considers to be in the public interest;
(b)any public purpose, or
(c)any commercial, industrial or utility purpose.

Of course the act doesn’t suggest that it is wise or prudent to expropriate properties for any “public purpose,” just that it can be done.