SCA’s new chair calls for tighter rules on land access
The newly elected Chair of the Saskatchewan Cattlemen’s Association says the onus should no longer be on the land owner to patrol their own lands.
Rick Toney, who lives in the Cypress Hills Region, plans to pressure the provincial government to tighten the rules around land access. As it stands now if land isn’t properly posted, anyone can go on it.
“That’s just like me walking into your house,” he said. “I don’t knock and ask if you I can come in I just go and walk in. That’s not proper.”
Toney said he would like to see people get written consent before going on someone else’s land, which could be in the form of text or email and there would be a fine system for people who disobey the rules.