Randy Hillier (politician)
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Randy Hillier MPP |
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| Member of the Ontario Provincial Parliament for Lanark—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington |
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Assumed office October 30, 2007 |
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| Preceded by | Riding Established |
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| Born | 1958 (age 58–59) Ottawa, Ontario |
| Political party | Progressive Conservative |
| Occupation | electrician, property rights activist |
Randy Hillier (born 1958) is a rural activist and politician in Ontario, Canada. He was elected as a Progressive Conservative MPP for Lanark—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington during the 2007 Ontario general election. Hillier is currently the PC critic for the Attorney General, and has served as the party's critic for both Labour and Northern Development, and Mines and Forestry in the provincial legislature.
Hillier is a licensed construction electrician with a diploma in electrical engineering technology from Algonquin College and former employee of the Canadian federal government. He lives near Perth, Ontario. In 2009, Hillier was a candidate in the provincial PC leadership election. After finishing fourth on the first ballot, he threw his support to the eventual winner Tim Hudak.
In 2003, Hillier co-founded and served as the first president of the Lanark Landowners' Association. He then assisted in creation of local landowner groups in other parts of Ontario, modelled on the Lanark Landowners. In 2006, he became the first president of the 15,000-member Ontario Landowners Association (OLA), an umbrella group for these groups. The OLA was formed "...to preserve and protect the rights of property owners and to enshrine property rights within the Constitution of Canada and the laws of the Province of Ontario."
Under Hillier's leadership, the landowners' groups initially engaged in acts of civil disobedience, including blocking highways, barricading government offices, staging illegal deer hunts, and publicly breaking laws that the landowners regarded as unjust. This was primarily done as a tactic to draw media attention to perceived injustices, and thereby to pressure the provincial government to amend the laws or at least enforce them in a manner less injurious to the interests of rural landowners.
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