"It immediately impacted my sense of security in my home having a place to live and my security in the sense of something that I own could possibly be taken from me,"
"[That] something that we worked on so hard for the last 45 years could be stripped from us."
"I remember opening the letter and thinking, is this a joke? What's going on here?"
A 40-hectare family farm about 130 kilometres north of Toronto received a letter from the Department of National Defence asking if the owners would consider selling for a large radar project. Two southern Ontario sites, one in Clearview near Stayner and another in the Kawartha Lakes, are proposed to host massive transmit and receive stations with rows of antennas and six-metre-high barbed-wire fences. The Arctic Over-the-Horizon Radar is part of a $38-billion investment to upgrade Canada's contribution to NORAD. The letters have generated shock and fear, local opposition and requests for assurances against expropriation.
Read at www.cbc.ca
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