“We need to save our farmland. It’s an important resource for Canada, if we lose our prime farmland how will we have the ability to food ourselves? Farmland also helps provide food and habitat for wildlife, while also improving air quality slowing down climate change. We need to find solutions that not only will help our farmland but wont make living harder for communities and growing cities, having a livable country without raised house prices would be fabulous (Especially since house pricing is already a problem for medium-low paid citizens in some areas). We need to act fast to save our farmland from urban sprawl, so that framers can once again feed cities. “

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“Farmlands provide food and habitat for wildlife, help control flooding, protect wetlands and watersheds and maintain air quality. They can absorb and filter wastewater and provide groundwater recharge. Desertification, on the other hand, speeds up climate change which makes a strong case for farmland conservation. As Canada paves its way north, it will eventually meet the northern limits of its prime farmland and that will be the end of our ability to both feed ourselves and feed people in other countries. Each year Canada loses 20,000 to 25,000 hectares of prime ”