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Ontario Assembly

43rd Parl. 1st Sess.
April 10, 2024 09:00AM
  • Apr/10/24 3:20:00 p.m.

I want to thank the member from Timiskaming for the comments today. It’s kind of nice, on this afternoon, to have a conversational debate rather than a head-to-head debate.

I remember the first time I was working at—I had a job in Geraldton. I was driving up Highway 11, and you get to about Barrie and then the farms disappear and it all becomes bush. You keep driving and driving for another—I don’t know—five or six hours, and then somewhere north of Timmins, the land opens up. There’s this huge valley and there’s all this farmland there. It’s the Clay Belt, and it was the first time I had ever learned about the Clay Belt.

You’re obviously a farmer from the Clay Belt. You’ve got a lot of experience there, and you said that climate change is actually impacting the Clay Belt, as well, and that you were able to grow, I think you said, canola for the first time, which you weren’t able to before, but it’s also having an impact on winter wheat. Can you talk about some of the impacts on Clay Belt farming of climate change?

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