The Canadian government has exercised its legal right to buy an elderly farmer's land and use it for an adjoining airbase.<br /><br />But 85-year-old Frank Meyers has refused to leave the land that his family has farmed in Trenton, Canada for 215 years.<br /><br />And his supporters are running a social media campaign from an old camping trailer in an attempt to get the government to return the land to Meyers.<br /><br />In Canada, the government can expropriate land for public projects as long as they pay fair compensation.<br /><br />Al Jazeera's Daniel Lak reports from the town of Trenton near Toronto, Canada.
