Agriculture

Ontario Freedom Food Policy supports a stronger, more self-reliant food system by encouraging local production, protecting productive farmland, and reducing barriers that prevent farmers, growers, and food producers from serving their communities.

MakersConnect is a national initiative that brings together Canadian fabricators, farmers, manufacturers, commercial kitchens, commissaries, and food preservation specialists.

Its purpose is to strengthen food production and manufacturing across Canada by building a network of independently strong but cooperatively connected small businesses. By sharing capacity, equipment, knowledge, and market opportunities, participants can strengthen local supply chains and bid for national contracts when needed.

Just an Acre is a local food initiative focused on restoring soil health and increasing the productive use of small parcels of land across Canada.

Its purpose is to rebuild soil ecology, biology, and chemistry as the foundation of a healthy food system. By improving the land and expanding local production, the initiative seeks to place more nutritious, locally grown food on Canadian tables while strengthening long-term food security.

Canada must be prepared to create real-value jobs as global competition, tariffs, automation, and other economic forces continue to reshape employment.

A more self-reliant economy requires greater capacity to grow food, preserve it, fabricate goods, manufacture essential products, and repair what communities use. This includes transitioning more agricultural land toward natural food production and training a new generation of farmers, makers, fabricators, and skilled workers.

Canada already has land, facilities, knowledge, and productive capacity. By connecting these resources, communities can create meaningful work, strengthen local supply chains, and reduce dependence on imported goods.

Canada should test and restore its soils, end the use of sewage sludge on farmland, and address contaminated waste streams at their source.

Pharmaceuticals, industrial chemicals, and other contaminants enter sewage systems and may ultimately spread on agricultural land. This creates risks for soil health, water systems, food production, and public well-being.

Policy should support comprehensive soil testing, stronger waste-treatment standards, source remediation, and farming practices that protect the long-term integrity of Canada's food supply.