Ottawa is regulating the family farm out of existence

Ottawa is regulating the family farm out of existence

We’ve turned the right to farm into a debt trap that no young Canadian can afford to carry In medieval England, the Sheriff of Nottingham jailed poor peasants for daring to hunt deer in the King’s Sherwood Forest to feed their starving families. Today, 89 per cent of Canada belongs to the Crown, meaning federal or provincial governments control most of the land, and small family farms and ranches are increasingly treated like those peasants: pun…

The family farm is being regulated out of existence

The family farm is being crushed by supply management which is restricting small producers, driving out ingindependent producers, and raising food costs The post Ottawa is regulating the family farm out of existence first appeared on Calgary's Business.