Turning a blind eye to a world of opportunity

As the world’s seventh largest arable land area, we are exceptionally placed to profit from this boom in food sales. Canada’s economic equivalent of Silicon Valley could run across the Prairies. Yet, for all its posturing, the Conservative government is squandering this opportunity.

Population growth, economic expansion, and changing diets across the developing world are fuelling an unrelenting rise in the demand for food and creating a tremendous opportunity for agricultural powers like Canada.

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