XPost: bc.politics, can.politics   
   From: Panca@nyet.ca   
      
   On 10/14/2014 4:43 PM, Alan Baker wrote:   
   > You think that we're terribly short of arable land, do you?   
   >   
   > 5550 hectares is approximately (according to Wikipedia) one tenth of one   
   > percent of the arable land in BC, and currently (according to Stats Canada)   
   > we're only farming about half of the arable land we have.   
   >   
   > So how is this a serious problem? How is it a problem at all?   
      
   No sources again, Baker?  I can't imagine why . . . .   
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   British Columbia's economy is largely resource-based. It is the endpoint of   
   transcontinental railways and the site of major Pacific ports that enable   
   international trade.   
      
   Though less than 5% of its vast 944,735 km2 (364,764 sq mi) land is arable, the   
   province is agriculturally rich (particularly in the Fraser and Okanagan   
   valleys) because of milder weather near the coast and in certain sheltered   
   southern valleys.   
      
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Columbia   
      
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