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Originally Posted by TheIronMaiden
The thing I hate about the valuable farm land rhetoric, is that you don't see the same complaints when people take up good land to build acreages or sprawl out suburbs.
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I mean, you definitely do. Both BC and Ontario have huge green zone/ALR areas to protect farmland from development. An absolute shortage of housing is a huge issue in this country, and we've had multiple threads where I make that point and the argument is always "won't someone think of the farmland". Which is ridiculous, because the % of farmland we'd use to double the housing supply in urban areas would be a minute fraction of the total. And we don't need to double the housing supply to make a huge difference to affordability for Canadians.
The same applies to solar panels, because they can generally be put on the lowest quality land in an area. Deserts make great solar farms, but aren't so good for regular farms.