[CliffFletcher]

The fixation on land is tragic. Land mattered 100 years ago. Today, prosperity comes from skills. In the last few decades millions of people have moved to Canada with zero land in their pockets and become prosperous citizens.

First you get the skills. Then you get the money. Raising more generations on proceeds from rent will not fundamentally improve their lives. But we want to believe in Eden, in the viability of a primitive lifestyle on the land. Those days are gone, and they're never coming back. It's terribly sad, but it's also reality.