WE KNOW THE INVASIVE SPECIES
MUNICIPAL COUNCIL PROTECTIONS FROM PERSONAL LIABILITY 7/11/25
To Hold Councilors Personally Liable, You Must Prove:
Element Evidence Needed
Acted outside authority No legal basis for the encumbrance
Acted in bad faith or with malice Emails, minutes, testimony, conflicts
Knew or ought to know harm would result with clear foreseeable losses. As any encumbrance would. Substantial harm or loss Appraisals, property value assessments,
ACTIONS TAKEN OR TO BE TAKEN
File a formal Notice of Claim to the municipality
Request records and minutes under Municipal Freedom of Information and
Protection of Privacy Act (MFIPPA)
File complaints with Integrity Commissioner or Auditor General
Prepare for litigation or class action (depending on number of landowners affected)
UNSUBSTANTIATED ENCUMBRANCE ON PRIVATE LANDS
Preliminary notice of personal liability directed at the Mayor and councilors, and planning department officials and staff for misrepresentation of known facts, causing or allowing by negligence an egregious and unsubstantiated encumbrance on private properties. This encroachment introduced a minimum one hundred thousand dollar loss on all watershed designated private properties in Severn Ontario and this, despite the elected officials having a sworn duty of care to taxpayers.
NOTICE OF PERSONAL LIABILITY
To: Mayor , Councilors, and Members of the Planning Department
Township of Severn
PRELIMINARY NOTICE OF PERSONAL LIABILITY – CLASS ACTION WARNING
FROM: Principal plaintiff, John Tait and multiple landowners in Severn Township:
A PRELIMINARY NOL and OUR INTENT TO SUE FOR OUR LOSSES
To: Mayor Mike Burkett, Members of Council, and Planning Department accredited officials in the Township of Severn.
RE: Imposition of Unlawful Encumbrance – Notice of Intent to Pursue Personal and
Collective Legal Action for the Personal Damages Arising from Government Misconduct and Devaluation of Private Property.
TO MAYOR BURKETT, COUNCIL MEMBERS and PLANNING OFFICIALS
The watershed effected landowners within the Township of Severn, hereby issue this potential Notice of personal and collective Liability regarding your involvement in, or failure to prevent, the imposition of an egregious and unlawful encumbrance on privately owned Severn lands.
This encumbrance has resulted in significant and measurable economic harm to multiple Severn landowners, amounting to equity losses in excess of $100,000 per property. We believe the actions and omissions of members of Council, the Mayor’s Office, and the Planning Department meet the threshold of misfeasance in public office, and may also constitute constructive expropriation, bad faith administrative action, and gross negligence allegations.
A land-use encumbrance, watershed designation, or planning-related restriction was placed on Severn private lands without lawful statutory authority, procedural fairness, or equitable public consultation; Affected landowners were not notified Officially or properly consulted in accordance with the duties of elected officials and their professional hires that were, according to current mission statements, and oaths of office placed to protect us under applicable provisions. Breaching the Planning Act, Municipal Act, and Expropriations Act;
When a landowner has been affected by this intrusion he/she is advised by our officials to seek a private planner to resolve this egregious breach of our rights and prove the officials wrong. Landowners must pay again for the failings of our officials? Insurance informants advised us that they pay out settlements similar to this every hour for damages incurred whether with intent or by accident. This property infringement is so obviously an encumbrance that any lay person would see. As officials you are sworn in to protect us and have neglected your “duty of care” breaching tort and common law principles. And causing obvious losses.
YOU CHANGED PROPERTY DYNAMICS TOTALLY
The effect of this encumbrance has been a substantial loss of equity, market value and family retirement plans, all without a reduction in our taxes which in fact, pay council their salary along with part of their retirement fund. That is a slap in the face to those without pension plans.
Taxpayers did not agree or vote to pay into (Ontario Municipal Employee Retirement) on behalf of unelected NGOS, non-governmental organizations that make property rights decisions for Canada. How much of your retirement did they contribute to? In what country is this acceptable? Start representing us.
These actions have severely impaired the use, enjoyment, caused family stress, and destroyed the economic potential of Severn private lands; and damage to plaintiffs and their family’s retirement plans. Officials have created frustrating and stressful issues for families, all while those families are contributing to your pensions. Families are watching as their taxes go up to support these NGO dictators.
Municipal actors, professionals, with at least average intelligence knew or ought to have known that their actions would result in material damage to landowners; as any and all encumbrances would.
These actions or omissions were undertaken with negligence and reckless disregard for legal limits, fiduciary duties of care, and the public trust.
NOTE: ACTIVE COURT CASES
Most plaintiffs are aware of the smart cities /15 minute cities that are a large part of the property control mechanisms laid out within the globalist agenda 2030. There are active court cases in Britain, Netherlands and the USA. This property, food and water, control agenda in Canada has become very clear with the culling of chickens, ostrich and cattle. This NGO globalist control is well documented.
Mayor Burkett is well aware of the proposal to merge Severn Ontario with Orillia and what has taken place in the neighboring Aurora board.
This is just the start of BILL 293, BILL C5, and BILL C6, controlling residents. Our properties will be rendered totally unappealing for the property market as we knew it. By suppressing the usage so we will eventually be moved into these conveniently controlled cities that limit our mobility, our finances and our rights in general. There is case law now. Recently considered conspiratorial, but not now, it is all laid out by the globalist elites and acknowledged by other municipalities and officials who are coming forward for the taxpayers.
JUST A SUGGESTION: Contact Gather 2030 if you care to educate yourselves and correct your affiliation with this corrupt fraudulent agenda by unelected NGOs.
LEGAL BASIS FOR PERSONAL ACCOUNTABILITY
While Section 448(1) of the Municipal Act, 2001 provides immunity to officials acting in good faith, this protection does not extend to actions taken in bad faith, with malice, or in willful disregard for legality. Courts in Ontario have recognized in cases such as Odhavji Estate v.
Woodhouse that public officials may be held personally accountable for egregious abuse of public office.
Moreover, where the impact of such decisions effectively amounts to expropriation without Compensation, affected parties may seek redress under the Expropriations Act and the
Common law.
Notice of Collective Legal Action
You are hereby notified that a collective legal claim or class action is being actively considered By affected landowners, and may be commenced without further notice should this matter not be
Resolved in good faith.
Landowners find it appalling that representatives would cause financial personal damages to them. We hope to limit damages to taxpayers going forward by suing our officials and representatives personally.
QUESTIONS?
As members of The Global Covenant of Mayors for climate and energy, have you fought these NGOs to protect us? We require all direct or indirect communications with those NGOs.
Who is our designated united nation’s representative overseeing our board?
As members of The Advanced Global Network of Mayors composed of world leading countries and cities, what have you done to fight these control agendas? We need to see the documents and the communications that were made to protect your charge. Hopefully we will find out why and how certain people become unworthy of that trust.
THE OFFICIAL FOIA/SUBPOENA NOTICE WILL INCLUDE;
A demand for immediate disclosure of all planning records, council meeting minutes, staff reports, legal opinions, mapping, and correspondence, including tax reductions, all related to the designation and restrictions in question; this for each independent watershed affected postal code property in Severn Township and showing their watershed boundaries pour points and cells and the authors of these.
We demand the names and contact information of the investigators that were able to justify the encumbrance and well able to sway our elected representatives away from serving the community and into the arms of unelected NGOs and PCPs
We demand all communication between our Severn council and the following complicit government officials. Mayor Burkett claims that despite attempts to contact these ministers below he is receiving no response. This inaction is a red light. Mayor Burkett should have immediately protected the taxpayers and withdrew from the watershed program to protect residents from damages. (see withdrawal procedure from Gather 2030. Other boards have done this. So should ours.)
ARE THESE COMPLICIT OFFICIALS? ARE THEIR COMMUNICATIONS LEGIT DEMANDS? MAYBE OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS SHOULD SUE THEM ON OUR BEHALF.
Hon. Rob Flack Minister minister.mah@ontario.ca Ministry of Municipal Affairs & Housing Martha Greenberg Deputy Minister martha.greenberg@ontario.ca
David McLean Assistant Deputy Minister, Housing Policy & Planning
Division David.McLean@ontario.ca
Anna MacDonald Director, Provincial Land Use Branch (deals with the mapping) anna.macdonald@ontario.ca
Jill Dunlop, MPP Simcoe North jill.dunlop@pc.ola.org
Doug Ford, Premier, doug.ford@pc.ola.org or premier@ontario.ca
IMPORTANT NOTE: There is a withdrawal procedure supplied by Gather 2030 that allows municipalities the option to pull out of the U.N. agenda and the foreign NGO/PCP unelected influence. You may want to contact gather 2030 regarding their Kicklei.ca
We demand the names of any Severn elected official or representative that is a licensed realtor and their license number.
We demand all communication and directives from the sources that caused our elected officials to assume the stewardship of our private lands when they had options.
A demand for the spreadsheets and the authors projecting anticipated losses due to the imposed encumbrance. Risk Management Findings.
A demand for the removal or amendment of the encumbrance, and compensation Commensurate with the losses suffered; both in equity and tax losses.
A warning that any continued enforcement or concealment of the encumbrance will be
Interpreted as deliberate misconduct and exacerbate damages and liability, ie: warrantless entry. You are now formally placed on notice of this potential claim, and any further harm suffered will be
Attributed to your knowledge of the situation as of the date of this Notice.
We reserve all rights and remedies available under statute and common law.
Sincerely,
John Tait Principle Plaintiff
On behalf of Affected Landowners in the Township of Severn and other jurisdictions.