Frank Meyers Family Farm

Thanks for the info

I feel for Mr Meyers and his family, but....

Most if not all military bases in Canada have been built on land that was previously occupied, usually by farmers. From what I has been written in the medias over the past few months on this topic, the land is required to accommodate a special forces training centre. It makes sense, for security reasons, access to aircraft, etc to have that place co-located with the airforce base. I presume that all the land around the base is already owned by private citizens, just as much as most of the land around military base in Canada (less maybe Goose Bay in Labrador). So the dilemma is where else can you put that centre?

It would make no sense to locate that centre in the middle of nowhere and if the black-pyjama-clad boys with high-speed/low-drag kit are needed, that it takes hours for them to get a ride anywhere. And if you are the passenger in a hijacked plane in Halifax, you probably don't want to wait an extra couple of hours, under duress, for these guys to show up.

So, this is a bit of a lopsided story (not necessarily surprised when coming from anti-military CBC...) and again, though I feel for Mr. Meyers, I'm quite sure he has been offered a fair compensation. While I don't want to discourage any votes of supports/petitions, I simply want to suggest people think this one out rationally instead of emotionally.