Shuswap Your Classified Connection / Vol. 24 No. 49 Friday, December 6, 2013
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Students support Philippines typhoon relief
n Grade 4 and 5 students from South Broadview Elementary School load bags of pop cans into the recycling bin at Hanna and Hanna Orchards Farm Market. The money raised will go toward relief efforts in the Philippines.
Councillor lobbies for land protection
Agricultural Land Reserve: Suggestions of change spark concern for food supply. By Lachlan Labere
market news staff
Ken Jamieson wants to see city council take more of a stand to protect agricultural land from politicians. The Salmon Arm councillor, and chair of the city’s agricultural advisory committee, said the B.C. government needs to be careful in how
it deals with the Agricultural Land Commission, the independent body tasked to protect agricultural land in the province. “If we have a wholesale, radical alteration of the mechanism and the framework that we use to protect agricultural land, I think we’d be making a big mistake,” said Jamieson, responding to a letter to council from the BC Food Systems Network
(BCFSN). The letter refers to a core review being done by a cabinet committee led by B.C. Energy Minister Bill Bennett. It’s goal is to find $50 million in savings for the next fiscal year, and the letter poses arguments against the minister’s expressed desire to target the ALC and the Agricultural Land Reserve it oversees. Subsequent to the BCFSN letter, cabinet documents were leaked to
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the media that outline steps for Agriculture Minister Pat Pimm to break up the ALR into two regions, and give greater control of what happens in a proposed northern region to the BC Oil and Gas Commission. Jamieson said he has spoken to people who would like to see the ALC done away with, and others See Jamieson on page 2