• CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de
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    22 hours ago

    We are going to grow more at home, process more at home and feed more Canadians with Canadian food.

    So, I take it that the policy to build more urban sprawl on prime farmland is over, right? Just healthy, walkable neighbourhoods with decent density?

    No?

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      7 hours ago

      B-but the only solution to affordable housing is dumping money into new development that will sell for half a million per unit so it can be bought by a foreign investment corporation and charge 50-70% of a Canadian’s income to rent back!

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      7 hours ago

      Why are commenting on provincial policies on a story about the federal government? Learn how governments work before blaming a PM for everything and buying flags for your trucks.

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        7 hours ago

        Of course it is, but Canada blames everything on the PM.

        Justin Trudeau stole all my furniture last week and replaced it with exact duplicates.

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        20 hours ago

        Food access is also provincial. Wasn’t one of the first things Carney was going to do after being elected to help the provinces dismantle their food trade barriers? What ever happened to that? He’s throwing money at the problem now instead of brokering a deal?

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          18 hours ago

          Throwing money… infrastructure is absolutely an area government should be involved in. Improving distribution through more wholesale markets is a great idea IMO.

          We need more Canadian processing, hopefully geared to mid tier, its currently bifurcated - trash food on one side and sixteen dollar jams on the other. We need more options, and options that are available to more than just the largest players through an anemic supply chain.

          Greenhouses, we don’t like those? Ontario is a global leader, let’s keep it going I would love more Canadian produce in the heart of winter.

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      18 hours ago

      Well-managed community gardens can grow massive quantities of food. Literal tons per half square block. I’d like to see more of a focus/funding on these sort of urban farms.

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        17 hours ago

        I think this is going to have to go the way of edible guerrilla gardening. Capitalism won’t be sharing any land for us to use for that.

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          15 hours ago

          I’m optimistic for municipal governments to someday get with this sort of thing. I mean, we’ve done it before: victory gardens during WW1&2

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            5 hours ago

            The average seventh grader back then was smarter than the average high school graduate today.

            I wouldn’t get your hopes up, at least about other people. Hence the guerilla part.

            Edit: clarity