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Need
new
approach,
by Sheila Gunby,
Huron F of A
Toronto: A dramatic
new approach is needed
to protect farmers in
their way of farming was
the—sentiment e xp-re Wed
at the OFA convention
held in Toronto last week.
It was felt that the Code
of Practice should be
replaced with a Code of
Rights for farmers - to
provide positive
protection of a farmer's
right to farm.
The Code of Practice,
originally intended to be
merely a guideline for
municipalities, has now
become a "must". It is
being instituted in official
plans as well as zoning•
bylaws. It has become
both a written and un-
written law across
Ontario.
'The Code of Practice
has failed the Ontario
farmer. It has not come
to grips with the number
of non-farm uses already
in rural Ontario. It has
impact on new houses
and new barns and ad-
ditions to barns that will
be built from here on. It
does not come to grips
with the present
harassment and
limitations put on far-
mers. There is a fear that
the Code of Practice
could 'expand to include
noise allowances, use of
pesticides and erosion
control; it could affect
every single thing a
farmer does.
Farmers are told to
preserve land, yet
municipalities are
allowed to grow toward
farmers; farmers are not
allowed to expand their
livestock operations in
proximity, to built-up
areas.
- The-- -first needs
-
needs to be done to
correct this problem is to
move • away from
negative controls on
farmers to a positive
protection of a farmer's
right to farm.
The discussion paper at
the OFA convention
proposed a provincial
Code of Rights - a bill of
rights that will be per-
missive rather than
restrictive for the far-
mer. It stated that
agriculture should be
considered as the
primary industry in the
agricultural areas and all
non-farm uses should be
secondary to that. It
should protect the
agricultural industry and
stop non-farm uses in an
agricultural areafrom
restricting agricultural .
practices. It would
protect farmers .in their
• normal farm practises
from harassment and
restrictions.
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Delegates from North West Huron at' the OFA Ashfield; Regional Director, Merle Gunby, Asti -
convention in Toronto last week were Vince Austin, field and Clete Dalton, Ashfield. Absent from the
picture, Dennis Connelly, Colborne.
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finally said to him, "Man,
you hammer like light-
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"You mean I'm fast?"
beamed the carpenter.
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"I mean you seldom
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