Only 5% of Ontario's landmass is useable farmland and yet, by 2016, Ontario was losing 175 acres of farmland PER DAY. As of the 2021 Census of Agriculture, that loss has increased to 319 acres per day, an increase of 82% in just 5 years! This one proposed project will permanently destroy 700 acres of farmland.
If we cannot grow our food locally, we risk becoming dependent on foreign sources and global supply chains.