The Rural Voice, 1980-02, Page 27Quebec
passes
farm
preservation
law
The Quebec government has passed a
wide-ranging farmland preservation law
which will make buying land in -the
province a little tougher in the future.
A special review committee in future
must approve non-agricultural uses of
farmland in a four million acre belt in the
Ottawa and St. Lawrence Valleys.
Some of the land uses which will have to
get commission approval include non -
Quebecers (Canadians or foreigners)
buying more than 10 acres of land,
subdivision development in rural areas,
non-agricultural land use applications,
home construction on several lots and the
use of maple sugar bushes for anything
other than sugar production.
In Ontario, Minister of Agriculture Lorne
Henderson has been coming under greater
pressure to control foreign ownership of
farmland in this province.
Although the erovincial government has
issued a set of guidelines on farmland use
-which has been criticized for being both to
weak and too se vere - the government is
facing increasing pressure on the foreign
land ownerhsip question.
"The Quebec legislation is too severe,"
the Ontario agriculture minister said. "It
doesn't even permit a citizen of Ontario to
buy property in Quebec without an order in
council of the (Quebec) cabinet."
A special committee recently established
by Lorne Henderson will report
suggestions on foreign ownership to him
after studying legislation in other
provincesand some U.S. States.
Lottery
finances projects
Twelve research projects are to be
financed from a special $5 million fund
allocated from Provincial Lottery funds.
The projects are in the general areas of
food supply, food safety, nutrition and
health.
The projects include a biological control
experiment on onion maggots, a livestock
management system to reduce reliance on
drugs in dairy and swine herds, a review of
the production and processing systems to
control salmonella contamination in poultry
and the development of grape cultivars
that could be grown for wine production in
southwestern Ontario.
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1HE RURAL VOICE/FEBRUARY 1980 PG. 25