Think owning a home is security? Think again Against the System reveals how far the Provincial government of B.C. was prepared to go to achieve their ends. A small number of property owners were shocked to find themselves on the receiving end of the provincial government's heavy handed jackboot tactics; denial of due process and abuse of legislative power, among other undemocratic actions all of which were referred to as a "political football to hot to handle," by a senior bureaucrat, as well as finding loan sharking referred to as "mob money" at a legal aid law centre.
What occurred was not justification and never should have happened, and some thirty years later the author is still living with the aftermath. The intended affordable housing touted by the province never materialized, but due to government failure to disclose combined with negligence and their arrogant disregard of law of equity, justice and fair-play, added to their rejection of the loss and trauma they were causing, some property owners were driven bankrupt and/or suffered foreclosure. The author lost her home which was her only asset. The total losses are inestimable. It should not be the business of government in a democracy, to drive anyone bankrupt. The tactics they employed to protect themselves and their collective ass were despicable and despotic. There was deliberate deceit, deliberate negligence and the accomplishing by illegal means that which could not be accomplished legally. Making it appear that human rights in Canada are in jeopardy unless all of us are ready to "stand on guard" for them.
The book is a true and factual account of one woman's experiences while searching for justice in herstruggle to survive and protect her Family, while being clobbered be the many bizarre twists and turns, and inequities in the system.