It is easy to be lulled into a sense that Canadians are "just like us" with the same values. Then something like this proposed legislation comes to light. It seems that Canadians don't have the same private property rights that we do!
Harry Pristis
"I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves." --John Wayne
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Third Session, 44th General Assembly
50 Elizabeth II, 2001
BILL 57
AN ACT TO AMEND THE HISTORIC
RESOURCES ACT
Received and Read the First Time
Second Reading
Committee
Third Reading
Royal Assent
HONOURABLE KEVIN AYLWARD
Minister of Tourism, Culture and Recreation
Ordered to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly
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The Act is amended by adding immediately after section 11 the following:
Title to and trade in fossils
11.1 (1) All significant fossils, whether beneath the surface of the land, attached to the land or detached from the land are vested in the Crown.
(2) Where a person dies possessing a significant fossil, the person responsible for the administration of the estate of the deceased person shall immediately deliver the significant fossil into the possession of the Crown.
(3) Except with the written permission of the minister, a person shall not engage in a commercial trade, activity, sale or export of a palaeontological resource.
(4) Notwithstanding subsection (3), the collection of a common palaentological resource that is not a significant fossil is permitted provided that there is no commercial trade, activity, sale or export of that resource.