One of Saskatchewan’s political parties wants to limit foreign farmland ownership.
“The problem with foreign farmland ownership is it’s chewing up so much farmland that it drives the land prices right up,” Rose Buscholl, the leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Saskatchewan, told Farms.com. “It becomes impossible for people to compete and for families to keep the farms in their families.”
One of the Buscholl’s party’s proposals is to expand the definition of foreign farmland ownership to include people or entities who aren’t living or farming in Saskatchewan.
The party also proposed to change the structure of the Farm Land Security Board to seven people, with one person representing the elected government to chair the meetings.