Whose Economy? Damien Gillis on Choosing Port Expansion Over Food Security
Channel: CommonSenseCanadian
Date: 2011-11-09

At a recent Nature Vancouver event Damien Gillis discussed the proposed doubling of Deltaport and conversion of prime farmland, fish and wildlife habitat into an industrialized Foreign Trade Zone - disputing the myth advanced by the Port Authority's CEO that farmland has little economic or food security value for the Lower Mainland. "The real question here is: 'Whose Economy? Whose Benefit? And what kind of a future do we want to have?'"