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Protesters have promised to continue their demonstration to save Frank Meyers’ ancestral farm land despite the presence of demolition crews to bring down the buildings. Meyers’ ancestral land includes 220-acres property south of the CN tracks on Meyers Creek Road in Quinte West in eastern Ontario. The federal government expropriated the land in August 2012 and disclosed its plan to use the land to create a 900-acre training facility for Joint Task Force 2, just north of CFB Trenton.
85-year-old Frank Meyers was moving fence rails, hay bales and clearing out buildings as the construction crews settled to demolish farm buildings on Monday. Meanwhile, protesters stood aside the CN tracks and kept an eye on the property overnight. Meyers was made to sign off a compensation offer made by the federal government last December when family members went to Toronto to meet with federal officials.
Frank Meyers’s son, John, revealed that family has not received any money from the government as yet. He mentioned that “we went up to see if we could have this stopped” but “Public Works Government Services Canada said there was nothing we could do to stop it. I would not say that we signed off in good faith.” Meyers confessed that there was a lot of “pressure” when it came to signing. He alleged that “it’s very sad that it’s come down to this” because “this is like a death in the family.” The defence department has posted “no trespassing” signs on the expropriated property.
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