Richmond - The Editor, Please put a stop to Bill 24. Quality food-growing soil is not being created anymore, and it would be criminal to remove and pave over any further acreage from the ALR.
Richmond - The Editor, Please put a stop to Bill 24. Quality food-growing soil is not being created anymore, and it would be criminal to remove and pave over any further acreage from the ALR.Canadian news this week indicates that the price of farmland in Saskatchewan and Manitoba has increased up to 90 per cent in the past 10 years.It is common knowledge that China is purchasing huge acreages of arable land all over the world (Africa, Hungary, southern U.S. etc.) anticipating their future inability to feed their own population.Why is B.C. immune to future foodgrowing needs? California is anticipating drastic reduction of their ability to continue growing huge crops of vegetables/fruit in the centralvalley due to repeated droughts.Current food price increases are reportedly irreversible.These news items, together with the (incomprehensible non-organic) growth and densification of housing capacity in B.C. calls for extreme caution in the preservation of arable land.Bill 24 is extremely short-sighted, risky and uncalled for. "Community planning objectives" seems a euphemism for "developer planning objectives" and the profits-before-community attitude is too common in B.C. lately.Please act with wisdom, caution, and foresight for the future population and economy of B.C. Please stop Bill 24. Your strength in achieving this will be admired.A. Lerner Richmond
