A group of Manitoba farmers has declared their local MLA a "missing person" in a front-page newspaper ad, in response to what they feel is betrayal from Infrastructure Minister Blaine Pedersen, who represents the Midland constituency.
"During the election campaign, both [Pedersen] and the premier were actually attending a lot of our meetings and were making promises that if they couldn't change the Bipole III route, at least they would make sure that we'd get to negotiate fairly and, you know, negotiate an agreement with Manitoba Hydro," Kohler said.
He is one of several farmers who had land expropriated for Bipole III — the $2.9-billion transmission line under construction that will run down the western side of the province.
The farmer called the 10 acres of his expropriated land "stolen property" that was taken while the former NDP government was in power.
"It's very disheartening."
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