BY ANNETTE SCHINBORN
Property Rights and Contracts
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t CAEPLA, we believe in protecting your property rights. One of the best ways of protecting those rights is through business agreements or contracts. Landowners are very familiar with contracts and how they work. You sign contracts when selling your grain,
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often before you even have placed the seed in the ground. You know and understand the value of having a contract, especially when you can lock in prices that are high rather than risk selling at a lower price. When it comes to biosecurity and protecting the health of your soils, contracts are the best way to protect your land. Relying on government to look out
for you or relying on the energy industry to follow vague protocols that are of no benefit to it leaves your property open to infestation and abuse. CAEPLA has seen it very clearly in the case of Manitoba Hydro on the Bipole III construction. Cleaning and disinfection of equipment was random at best, even when landowners patrolled their own property and watched closely.
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