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[–] 43 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Awesome. Now do shelter next and maybe stop flirting with private medical care.

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  • [–] 25 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Food should be nationalized, like water, health, housing, transportation.

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  • [–] 22 points 3 months ago

    That seems great on pretty much every front.

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  • [–] 22 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (12 children)

    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?

    Allowing continued growth in the Fraser valley, Okanogan, and southern Ontario jeopardizes the ability to grow many of the crops suggested in TFA - fruit and vegetables and nuts. You can’t grow peaches in Saskatchewan.

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    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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  • [–] 5 points 3 months 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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  • [–] 2 points 3 months 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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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (3 children)

    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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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 2 points 3 months 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

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    A lot of housing developments are locally permitted, but get provincial and/or Federal funding. The federal government definitely has the power to encourage/discourage urban sprawl style housing.

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    [–] 11 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    $3.2B over ten years, or $320 million per year. For reference, the recent AI for All plan promised $2.195B in AI investment.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago

    Yay. More money for corporate farms.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    Researchers at the University of Guelph published an article on Canada’s current food system if someone is interested. Their proposals are in large parts in line with the government's plans, but they provide additional background.

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