BOWLING GREEN, ONTARIO — Ontario Premier Doug Ford received a polite welcome Tuesday at a rural and farm expo, but underneath the smattering of applause and cheers lay a quiet undercurrent of anger about his plan to open parcels of protected Greenbel
Provincial politicians of all stripes made a trek to the International Plowing Match, which is a celebration of agriculture and rural living, and provides politicians with an opportunity to woo those communities.
"Doug Ford, how can you come and promote the International Plowing Match when you're appropriating prime farmland?" said Mona Blain, from Rodney, Ont., near London."He should be ashamed of himself...Farming affects us all. When there's no land left, where is our food coming from?" The auditor general found that more than 90 per cent of the land was in five sites passed on to the then-housing minister's chief of staff by two developers he met at an industry event, and the property owners stand to see their land value rise by $8.3 billion.
"We're always going to have the agriculture sector, the food sector's back, but most importantly, we're going to have the farmers' backs, the people that are out there day in and day out, working the backs off, and they're salt of the earth people," he said.
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