A beautiful statement about the purpose of the ALR - The ALR exists precisely because British Columbia has long recognized that if agricultural land were to succumb every time anyone proposed a development on particular land that proponents and politicians viewed on an ad hoc basis as being more economically favourable than the current use of that land, expedient and even short-sighted decisions would often follow, to the long term detriment of the province’s agricultural land base. The Commission exists precisely to prevent the British Columbia public waking up one day and asking - “what happened to our agricultural land?” This dynamic is precisely what an Act dealing with less than 5% of the provincial land base was intended to avoid, and is precisely why an independent Commission was created. Rather than basing decisions on the politically expedient, the crisis of the day or short term profit that sacrifice agricultural land forever, an independent Commission’s task is to make its decisions in a principled fashion in a fair process that reflects coherent agricultural policy and planning and which reflects the purposes set out above in s. 6, one of which is to preserve agricultural land.
Posted on: Fri, 04 Oct 2013 21:45:45 +0000
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