[raisethehammer]

yea, you're right...those farmers have it made.
We treat them like crap and keep their land values completely worthless until some suit comes along with a plan to wipe everything out and build some cardboard McMansions, then suddenly the land value skyrockets. We allow cheap, unhealthy imports from all over the world (food imports) while local farmers barely make enough to live off of.

I don't live in Toronto, so don't know all the ins and outs of the 416-905 thing....but in Hamilton (all 905) the urban city subsidizes the suburbs.
Also, in Hamilton, the agriculture industry is a $1 billion per year industry. it needs to be nurtured, not paved over and taxed to death. Let's start taxing all the McCrappers and Burger Kings, not the local Ma and Pa shops to death.