[Here’s a letter to the Editor written by Milford resident Jim McPherson and published in the National Post online edition in a shortened version, August 20, 2013.]

Citizens in Pugwash, N.S. are valiantly fighting the same battle that is turning rural Ontario communities into war zones.  Our common enemies are provincial governments, blinded by unrealistic green energy promises of the wind industry.  It is past time to take this fight to the courts, where the Supreme Court of Canada can eventually be called upon to restore democracy and protect rural Canadians from violations of our common law rights to quiet enjoyment of our properties.  Our Charter-assured Rights and Freedoms are being legislated away by provinces, while municipal and federal governments are powerless to intervene.