NFU calls for ban on investor farmland ownership
Farmers, farm workers, and supporters will be gathering on Parliament Hill on Nov. 22 to demand the Federal government impose a ban on investor ownership of farmland.
Young farmers and farm workers will lead a farmland access visioning activity where participants will create squares to form a collective quilt, share seeds, create an art piece, and spread messages of resistance and solidarity.
National Farmers Union-Ontario youth advisor Rav Singh said it’s well known what happens when land speculators are allowed to run rampant.
“It was land speculators who bought up Greenbelt farmland with the help of the Ford government, planning to pave it over and build high-end townhouses,” Singh said. “Investment companies should not have the power to gamble with the future of farming.”